Title: Understanding the kingdom of God
Authors: Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Kingdom of God.
Contents: Where we stand. The popularity of Jesus ; The miracle of Jesus ; The problems emerge ; Prophetic or apocalyptic? ; Our dilemma -- The spectrum of opinion. Apocalyptic eschatology ; Prophetic eschatology ; Realized eschatology ; The kingdom as existential decision -- What is the Kingdom of God?. A composite view ; Some differentiations of meaning ; A reexamination of the spectrum -- The Kingdom before and after Jesus. Backgrounds of the kingdom concept ; Did Jesus believe himself to be the Messiah? ; The kingdom of God in the early church -- The Kingdom in the parables. Why the parables? ; The worth of the kingdom ; The conditions of entrance ; Life in the kingdom ; The parables of growth ; The parables of judgment -- The difference it makes. The world we live in ; Types of response ; In the mainline churches ; In the adventist sects ; Some other conceptions ; Hope, demand, and victory -- Thy Kingdom come. The destiny of the individual person ; The coming kingdom.