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Joel Green’s second post on the kingdom of God begins with an excellent thought attributed to Marianne Meye Thompson: Jesus did not bring the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God brought Jesus. Very good!Telling the Story of the Kingdom of GodGreen proposes to locate the coming of Jesus “on the grand mural, within the grand narrative, that extends from creation to new creation.”He then offers an “… (Read more...)
Joel Green is doing a series of posts on the kingdom of God on Substack. He has some good things to say about how narrative works, but his argument about the kingdom of God doesn’t escape the gravitational pull of planet theology. I will summarise his posts and try to show where and why and with what consequences the historical aspect of the kingdom narrative gets eclipsed. In the first piece, he… (Read more...)
In Romans 9:4-5 Paul lists the several prerogatives of his own people, the Jews, the last being that from them is “the messiah according to the flesh.” Then comes this clause: “the one being over all God blessed forever, amen.”Here we have the christological crux.Do we put a period after “according to the flesh” and punctuate this as an independent benediction or doxology, keeping messiah and God… (Read more...)
The group of people criticised in Romans 1:18-32 is said to have known the truth about God and to have known God but also to have departed from that knowledge by worshipping and serving the creature rather the creator. Jason Staples has argued that this can be said only of Israel, not of the gentiles because only Israel has known God.I want to have another look at this conundrum, because it… (Read more...)
There is much to like about and much to learn from Jason Staples’ book Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites, but I have serious doubts about the central thesis, which is that Paul’s overarching goal is the regathering and restoration of all Israel, including the tribes of the northern kingdom lost among the nations:Paul argues that the… (Read more...)