of God, we could expand upon Pannenberg to claim that teasing out this interwoven relationship is one of the most problematic questions in contemporary theology. To put it another way, discipleship is learning how to live in between, to live in the “already” in light of and governed by the “not yet.” While there is an emerging consensus on the already/not yet paradigm of the kingdom of God—or, as Pannenberg has it, the inextricable interwoven nature of present and future—there remain significant
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