For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (Biblia.com)

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The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today’s pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life—for ourselves, our neighbors, and the planet as a whole—is neglected in our universities, our churches, and our culture at large. Although we increasingly have...

As we have noted earlier, other metaphors are present in Scripture as well. In the New Testament, there is no metaphor more important than the kingdom of God. While the metaphors of “home” and of the “kingdom” no doubt have different emphases, we argue that they are different metaphors for the same reality: flourishing life as a dynamic relation between God who is love and the world in which God dwells and which reflects God’s character. The metaphor of the kingdom was central to the preaching of

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