The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus in 20th Century Theology
Mark Saucy
Word Publishing
(C) 1997
406 Pages

Author: PhD from Fuller Seminary; Professor at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University; Director of Talbot's extension program at Kyiv Theological Seminary; formerly missionary for 13 years with SEND in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Intention: To "use the findings from the study of the Kingdom in the last generation to fund yet another venture in understanding the Kingdom of God in Jesus' teaching."

Structure: After an introduction covering the procedures and limitations of the study and the recent trends in Kingdom studies, the book is divided into four parts and nine chapters.

Part 1: Foundations for the study of the Kingdom since 1960
Ch 1: Issues in the interpretation of the Kingdom of God prior to 1960

Part 2: NT trends since 1960
Ch 2: The non-apocalyptic Kingdom of the New Hermeneutic and the New Literary Criticism
Ch 3: The non-apocalyptic Kingdom of the Regnum Christi
Ch 4: The social-economic Kingdom of the Third Quest
Ch 5: The Apocalyptic Kingdom

Part 3: Systematic Presentation of the Kingdom since 1960
Ch 6: The political theology of the Kingdom in Jurgen Moltmann
Ch 7: The Kingdom in Latin American Liberation Theology
Ch 8: The Kingdom in Roman Catholicism, the World Council of Churches, and Evangelicalism

Part 4: Contribution to the Study of the Kingdom
Ch 9: The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (M. Saucy's view)

Resources: copious footnotes; bibliography, three indexes (Scripture, Author, and Subject)

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