between them formally speaking, materially their theologies differ significantly. In Pannenberg’s view, we cannot think of God’s being apart from God’s rule (kingdom). God’s being is God’s rule; ‘the deity of God is his rule’.10 God’s rule is an expression of God’s power, and the idea of power is implicit in the very idea of deity. If the kingdom of God does not come, God cannot be God! But how is God powerful? How does God rule in and over the cosmos? Obviously, in a Christian frame of reference
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