BI301 A Biblical Theology of the Kingdom of God
Overview
Explore the kingdom through the parables of Jesus and learn what the kingdom is, who the kingdom belongs to, and how one lives in the kingdom. Discover that the kingdom is what God does, and that He just might use you in his work. This kingdom is to be characterized by sharing, by working together, by forgiving each other, and by being empowered by the Holy Spirit. Most importantly, it is a kingdom centered on Jesus the Messiah and on worship—and this is just a foretaste of what’s going to happen when the kingdom comes in its fullness.
Top Highlights
“The lives of Jesus was again an attempt to take Jesus and situate Him within a certain moral context. Jesus became not a saving figure but a moral figure. For the nineteenth century, on a very popular level anyway, the kingdom of God was a kind of moral economy with absolutely no eschatological dynamic.” (source)
“Do you see how, for the ancient Israelites, the notion of the kingdom of God was universal? And when they thought ‘kingdom of God,’ they thought, not just, ‘This is our stretch of territory,’ but this is a worldwide focus. The kingdom is about reaching the ends of the earth.” (source)
“‘an elected, as opposed to natural, relationship of obligation established under divine sanction.’” (source)
“First of all, to be made in the image of God means to mirror God.” (source)
“‘existentialism,’ and existentialism can refer to a very broad philosophical movement, but here I want to use it in a very specific and precise sense to refer to Ritschl’s understanding of the final human dilemma, the problem that God is trying to deliver us from. This is a very important question when you want to understand any theologian: What’s the problem that the gospel is trying to solve?” (source)
- Title: BI301 A Biblical Theology of the Kingdom of God
- Author: Nicholas Perrin
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Education › Kingdom of God; Education › Kingdom of God--Biblical teaching; Kingdom of God; Kingdom of God › Biblical teaching
- Resource ID: LLS:BI301PERRIN
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:15:11Z
Nicholas Perrin, PhD, is dean of Wheaton College Graduate School and Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies. Between 2000 and 2003, he was research assistant for N.T. Wright and has since authored and edited numerous articles and books, including Thomas and Tatian (Society of Biblical Literature / Brill); Thomas: The Other Gospel (Westminster John Knox); Lost in Transmission: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus (Thomas Nelson); and Jesus the Temple (SPCK; Baker Academic), the first of a three-part trilogy on the historical Jesus. He is also coeditor of the recently revised edition of Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (InterVarsity).