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The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism is unavailable, but you can change that!

After surveying the debate of eschatology, Ladd discusses the promise of the kingdom, the fulfillment of the promise, and the consummation of the promise. Throughout the volume he develops his thesis that the kingdom of God involves two great movements—fulfillment within history and consummation at the end of history.

The Kingdom of God has received such intensive study during the last few decades that a recent survey of New Testament research can speak of “the discovery of the true meaning of the Kingdom of God.”1 There is a growing consensus in New Testament scholarship that the Kingdom of God is in some sense both present and future. However, while much progress has been achieved, the question of the role of apocalyptic concepts in our Lord’s teaching, and the relationship between
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