lack of unanimity in this area is that eschatology focuses on events beyond the parameters of space and time, events that can only be described in poetic or figurative language. The literalizing of the language of faith creates insuperable barriers in forging a comprehensive understanding of the events that constitute the last things. The Coming of the Kingdom Theologians in the past and the present have been glaringly incapable of arriving at a consensus on the coming of the kingdom of God. In the