Book contents
- Jesus in Context
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Jesus in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction and Purpose of This Book
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Jesus’ Life, Ministry and Teaching
- 7 Beginnings
- 8 Baptism and John the Baptist
- 9 Amazing Teacher in Galilee
- 10 The Kingdom of God
- 11 Healings, Miracles and the Son of Man
- 12 Friend of the ‘Poor’
- 13 Followers and Supporters
- 14 Following Jesus in Practice
- 15 Opposition, New Directions, Jesus as Messiah
- 16 So to Jerusalem
- 17 Jesus’ Vision of the Future and of His Own Divine Authority
- 18 On the Way to Crucifixion
- 19 Finale in Jerusalem
- 20 After the Death of Jesus
- 21 Final Conclusions, and Postscript
- Select Bibliography
- Index
10 - The Kingdom of God
from Part II - Jesus’ Life, Ministry and Teaching
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2021
- Jesus in Context
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Jesus in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction and Purpose of This Book
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Jesus’ Life, Ministry and Teaching
- 7 Beginnings
- 8 Baptism and John the Baptist
- 9 Amazing Teacher in Galilee
- 10 The Kingdom of God
- 11 Healings, Miracles and the Son of Man
- 12 Friend of the ‘Poor’
- 13 Followers and Supporters
- 14 Following Jesus in Practice
- 15 Opposition, New Directions, Jesus as Messiah
- 16 So to Jerusalem
- 17 Jesus’ Vision of the Future and of His Own Divine Authority
- 18 On the Way to Crucifixion
- 19 Finale in Jerusalem
- 20 After the Death of Jesus
- 21 Final Conclusions, and Postscript
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The attractive power of Jesus’ teaching lay not just in its pictorial and poetic form, but at least as much in its content. All the synoptic gospels agree that Jesus came ‘proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God’.1
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- Jesus in ContextMaking Sense of the Historical Figure, pp. 112 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021