The core of Jesus' preaching is the kingdom of God. And the difficulty is for us to hear that term as 100 percent political and 100 percent religious. Not one, not the other. In the first century ...

We’ve been looking at the way the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed was the development of perhaps the central theme of the Old Testament: There would come a time when God would act, fulfilling his ...

the kingdom, the vision of God, participation in the divine nature, eternal life, filiation, rest in God." They are the heart of Jesus' preaching. "They continue the promises made to the chosen ...