The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism

by George Eldon Ladd

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1974

Overview

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.

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Key Features

• Discusses the promise of the kingdom
• Focuses on the kingdom of God within history and the consummation at the end of history

Contents

• The Debate over Eschatology
• The Old Testament Promise
• The Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Promise
• Fulfillment without Consummation
• The Kingdom: Reign or Realm?
• The Kingdom Present as Dynamic Power
• The Kingdom Present as the Divine Activity
• The Kingdom Present as the New Age of Salvation
• The Mystery of the Kingdom
• Jesus, Israel, and His Disciples
• The Kingdom and the Church
• The Ethics of the Kingdom
• The Consummation of the Kingdom
• The Abiding Values for Theology

Top Highlights

“There is a growing consensus in New Testament scholarship that the Kingdom of God is in some sense both present and future.” (Page 3)

“If, however, the Kingdom is the reign of God, not merely in the human heart but dynamically active in the person of Jesus and in human history, then it becomes possible to understand how the Kingdom of God can be present and future, inward and outward, spiritual and apocalyptic.” (Page 42)

“In a fourth group, the Kingdom is represented as a present realm or sphere into which men are now entering (Matt. 11:11 = Luke 16:16; Matt. 21:31; 23:13; cf. Luke 11:52).” (Page 123)

“The distinctive characteristic about Jesus’ teaching is that in some real sense, the Kingdom of God has come in his person and mission (Matt. 12:28). The mystery of the Kingdom (Mark 4:11) is the secret of its unexpected irruption in history.” (Page xi)

“It is the purpose of this book to expound how and in what sense the eschatological Kingdom has become a present reality in Jesus’ mission.” (Page xii)

Praise for the Print Edition

A welcoming reprinting . . . This classic exposition of ‘inaugurated eschatology’—the kingdom of God as both ‘already and not yet’ in the ministry of Jesus himself—should serve a new generation of students and pastors as it did an earlier one.

—Gordon D. Fee, professor emeritus of New Testament studies, Regent College

Product Details

• Title: The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism
• Author: George Eldon Ladd
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1974
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 384
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Kingdom of God
• ISBNs: 9780802815316, 0802815316
• Resource ID: LLS:PRESENCEFUTURE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:22:53Z

About George Eldon Ladd

Ladd, professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary since 1950, was educated at Gordon College and Gordon Divinity School (B.D.) and received the Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral study at Heidelberg and Basel Universities. Ordained as an American Baptist minister, Ladd served several churches in the denomination. He was professor of Greek at Gordon College (1942-45) and head of the department of New Testament at Gordon Divinity School (1946-50). His writings include Crucial Questions about the Kingdom of God (1952), The Blessed Hope (1956), The Gospel of the Kingdom (1959), Jesus Christ and History (1963), The New Testament and Criticism (1965), The Pattern of the New Testament (1968), Commentary on The Revelation (1972) and The Theology of the New Testament (1974).