The kingdom is not simply some cipher that we can fill in with our ideas
about what a good society ought to look like. Nor is it merely a way of
reemphasizing the eternal sovereignty of God, though this is certainly part
of what the proclamation of the kingdom entails. Rather the proclamation of
the coming kingdom of God, its presence, and its future coming is a claim
about how God rules and the establishment of that rule through the life,
death, and resurrection of Jesus. Thus the Gospels portray Jesus not only
offering the possibility of achieving what were heretofore thought to be
impossible ethical ideals. He actually proclaims and embodies a way of life
that God has made possible here and now.
Stanley HauerwasThe
Peaceable Kingdom
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