RELS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ecclesiology, Orthopraxy, Immanence
5 Oct 2017
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The kingdom of god may seem to imply an earthly area of land; yet perhaps kingly rule or kingship might be a better translation. The coming of the kingdom of god is not something that can be observed, nor will people say here it is," or there it is," because the kingdom of god is in your midst. (luke 17) The kingdom is here; it is drawing near ; but it has not come in its fullness. The kingdom of god is proleptic in that it displays both present and future. A movement from the idea of a cataclysmic end to history to a hope in the evolution of humanity towards moral perfection. Karl marx (1818-1883) a secular eschatology the future hope of revolution and utopia is the story that inspires the proletariat a modi ed christian narrative. Darwinism (though not darwin"s theory itself) humanity as solving into a more and more sophisticated life form.
