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    The document provides 19 different definitions of the kingdom of God from various theologians: 1. The kingdom of God is not a new territory but a new divine order, according to Leonardo Boff. 2. Hans Küng defines the kingdom as the cause of God in the world. 3. Günter Bornkamm sees the kingdom as an event, fact, and divine action full of thanks.

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    The document provides 19 different definitions of the kingdom of God from various theologians: 1. The kingdom of God is not a new territory but a new divine order, according to Leonardo Boff. 2. Hans Küng defines the kingdom as the cause of God in the world. 3. Günter Bornkamm sees the kingdom as an event, fact, and divine action full of thanks.

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    The document provides 19 different definitions of the kingdom of God from various theologians: 1. The kingdom of God is not a new territory but a new divine order, according to Leonardo Boff. 2. Hans Küng defines the kingdom as the cause of God in the world. 3. Günter Bornkamm sees the kingdom as an event, fact, and divine action full of thanks.

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    DEFINITIONS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

    Translated by Efrén Melo

    Different definitions on the kingdom of God according to the theologians:

    1. “It is not a new territory but a new order”. Leonardo Boff


    2. “The kingdom is the cause of God in the world”. Hans Küng
    3. “The kingdom is event, fact, divine action full with thanks”.
    Günter Bornkamm
    4. “The kingdom is the realization, the beginning and the end of Israel”.
    Martin Buber
    5. “Kingdom of God is the new world of God”. E. Lohmeyer
    6. “The kingdom is the life, the whole ministry of Jesus proclaims life,
    celebrates life, defends life, restores life, and promises life”.
    Arias Mortimer
    7. “The kingdom of God is good news that concerns the whole man and
    all men, in this life and in the other one”.
    8. “It is an unheard desire and of an unsatisfied hope”. Ernst Bloch
    9. “It is a beyond of all known, a different, but last and definitive reality:
    new creation, resurrection, eternal life, new heaven and new earth”.
    10. “It is historically the scatological realization of the liberating
    kingdom”.
    Jurgen Moltmann
    11. “The kingdom of God is Christ’s kingdom”. Rudolf Schnackenburg
    12. “The kingdom of God is a dynamic government that had penetrated
    in the world through Jesus and his mission, which he will manifest
    again at the end of the world, to take the redemption until the
    fullness”. George Ladd
    13. “The kingdom is a scatological reality that is so much present as
    future”.
    G. Vos
    14. “It is governing of God in act to settle down or to modify a certain
    order of things”. Jon Sobrino
    15. “It is the divine reality that sprays the reality of men”.
    16. “A dynamic reality already present and united, in a special way to the
    person and work of Jesus Christ”.
    17. “It is the realization of a utopia of the human heart of total liberation
    of the human and cosmic reality”.
    18. “It is the new situation of the old world, completely full with God and
    reconciled with itself”.
    19. “A total, global and structural revolution of the old order, carried out
    for God and totally by him”. Leonardo Boff

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