The Kingdom of God in 20th-Century Interpretation
Ed. Wendell Willis
Hendrickson Publishers
(C)1987
208 Pages

Editor: Willis is Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University. According to his faculty page, "Wendell earned his bachelor's degree from Midwestern State University in 1965. He received his master's degree from Abilene Christian University in 1967, his B.D. from Vanderbilt in 1969 and his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University in 1981."

Authors in this work:
M. Eugene Boring
John J. Collins
Paul Donfried
W. Emory Elmore
Eldon Jay Epp
Ron Farmer
Everett Ferguson
Richard H. Hiers, Jr.
Robert Hodgson, Jr.
J. Ramsay Michaels
Robert O’Toole, SJ
Dale Patrick
B. T. Viviano, OP
Amos N. Wilder (foreword)
Wendell Willis

Intention: To present a thematic presentation on the topic of "Kingdom of God," allowing common reflection upon the topic.

Structure: The book is a collection of essays.

• The Discovery of the Eschatological Kingdom: Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer (Willis)
• Pivotal Reactions to the Eschatological Interpretations: Rudolf Bultmann and C. H. Dodd (Hiers)
• Mediating Approaches to the Kingdom: Werner Georg Kummel and George Eldon Ladd (Epp)
• Linguistic Approaches to the Kingdom: Amos Wilder and Norman Perrin (Elmore)
• The Kingdom of God in the Old Testament (Patrick)
• The Kingdom of God in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Collins)
  
• The Kingdom of God in the Qumran Literature (Viviano)
• The Kingdom of God and the Historical Jesus (Michaels)
• The Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Matthew (Farmer)
• The Kingdom of God in Mark (Boring)
• The Kingdom of God in Luke-Acts (O'Toole)
• The Kingdom of God in the School of St. John (Hodgson)
• The Kingdom of Gos in Paul (Donfried)
• The Kingdom of God in Early Patristic Literature (Ferguson)
  

Resources: each chapter has either footnotes or endnotes. No indexes are provided.

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