"The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." -Luke 17:20-21
The kingdom of God, which Christ proclaimed as being "at hand" has been inaugurated by His passion and sealed at Pentecost. So we who are redeemed are living in that kingdom today. It's not a temporal reign, but an eternal one. It is also not something which we have to bring into being, because it already is. (I've been thinking about that aspect a lot this semester as we've been studying the political impulse that seeks to "immantize the eschaton" in Voegelin's terms; i.e., to bring into being some kind of ideal.)
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