a characteristic malaise of the twentieth century: the isolation of critical discourse from contemporary belief, and vice versa. Since the time of Schweitzer, of course, the divide has widened. Scholarly discourse appears dense (at best) to most people who read the Gospels, and public discourse concerning the kingdom (whether in the Church or not) seems ill-informed to most scholars. The standard vocabulary of both kinds of discourse illustrates the problem. Scholars routinely debate whether the