A present Kingdom

Question 1

What did E. Schweitzer believe?

Answer 1

Jesus was teaching that there would be an immediate coming of the kingdom

Question 2

What does C.H. Dodd, in the parables of the kingdom, believe? and what is this called?

Answer 2

That Jesus was teaching that the kingdom was already present in hum and displayed in his miracles
- its called realised eschatology (the end is happening now)

Question 3

By which verses is realised eschatology backed up with?

Answer 3

Verses like Jesus saying ‘But if i drive out the demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God HAS come to you’ (Luke)
- ‘…the kingdom of God IS within you’

Question 4

What did G.B. Caird argue?

Answer 4

• the kingdom of God was established to stand against the kingdom of Satan
• Jesus would drive Satan out of the world through his exorcism and healing miracles
• Jesus was fighting for the Kingdom of God

Question 5

Did G.B Caird argue that the Kingdom of God was present and how did he believe people must respond to it?

Answer 5

Yes

- Believed that people should respond to it positively

Question 6

How did G.B Caird believe people should respond to the kingdom of God positively? and how would they risk losing it?

Answer 6

• by proclaiming it
• living in accordance with it
  + or risk losing it through judgement

Question 7

What did Leon Morris suggest?

Answer 7

that the miracles of Jesus proved that the kingdom of God was in the present, established by Christ, through the power of God