What Did Jesus Mean by the Kingdom of God?
Film8 min2026
Every day, in hundreds of languages, Christians pray "Thy kingdom come". But what kingdom, where, and when?
UNBOUND reads what the sayings attributed to Jesus say about the kingdom of God: Schweitzer's apocalyptic prophet, Dodd's kingdom already arriving, the parables of small and hidden things, the contested "within you" of Luke and the Gospel of Thomas. Rev Benton's answer: the kingdom is a state of awareness in which the separation between self and God is transcended.
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