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When the Time Had Fully Come: Studies in New Testament Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is one of the most central concepts in the history of revelation. Prepared in the Old Testament, notable in the so-called enthronement Psalms and in the prophecies, it makes its appearance in the overture of the New Testament as the contents of the great proclamation of salvation, first of the herald, John the Baptist, then of Christ Himself: “The...

is the liberty which makes man free as a spiritual being. This liberty must come from the other side, from God’s, through man’s being addressed by the Word of God. That is the transcendence. But this transcendence is restricted to that which makes a man really into man in the sense of existentialist philosophy. God is God only insofar as He is necessary to the realization of this man. God exists sub specie hominis. That is the God of existentialism. That is the humanization of the Kingdom of God
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