the eschatological reality—and not the past or even the present constitutes our corporate life, just as it determines our individual identity. What the church is, in short, is determined by what the church is destined to become. And the church is directed toward the destiny God intends for humankind—participation in the consummated reign of God. This outlook stands in contrast to more Platonic conceptions which regard the church in the world as the manifestation of some pure Form or Idea.48 Reformed