A better definition of God’s kingdom changes everything about how we live today – no matter what the future holds.
Welcome to a better way of looking at the end: as the culmination of God’s grand story. Jesus’ most important word in describing the end is the Greek word telos. Telos is the rhythm of human history; the presence of God; and the plot, purpose, and completion of the story. The end is the kingdom of God, and the kingdom is here and now.
Sweet and Wilson show how many of the political problems plaguing modern Christianity are rooted in bad theology. God’s kingdom is the present reality of the presence of God that gives us hope for today and tomorrow.
Cuprins
Prologue/Long TIme Coming: The Story
ACT ONE/THE END OF THE BEGINNING: THE PRESENT AGE
Chapter 1/Out of Time: The False Ending of Apocalypticism
Chapter 2/Double Time: The False Ending of Utopianism
Chapter 3/Back in Time: The False Ending of Traditionalism
Chapter 4/Marking Time: The False Ending of Millennialism
Chapter 5/No Time: The False Ending of Ahistoricism
Chapter 6/Big Time: The False Ending of Messianism
ACT TWO/THE BEGINNING OF THE END: THE AGE TO COME
Chapter 7/Real Time: Authority
Chapter 8/End Time: Telos
Chapter 9/Full Time Kingdom
Chapter 10/ Time Out: Presence
Chapter 11/ Party Time: Jubilee
Chapter 12/Time Being: Authorship
Epilogue/Overtime: Signs of the Times
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
INDEX