ABSTRACT
This chapter explicates and assesses Jürgen Moltmann understands of the Kingdom of God. Moltmann employs the kingdom of God as a material concept in articulating his view of the nature of the eschaton for which the Christian hopes. For Moltmann, the person of Jesus Christ is essential for a proper understanding of the Kingdom of God. He takes as his starting point the centrality of the Kingdom for Jesus of Nazareth in his life, vocation, and ultimately death and resurrection as the Messiah of God. Moltmann maintains a firm understanding of this life, ministry and salvific work of Christ in death and resurrection as eschatological. Moltmann defines the eschatological Kingdom of God in Christological terms. Moltmann maintains this Christological focus while extrapolating its eschatological nature by examining the life, vocation and person of Jesus. The Kingdom of God manifested in the person of Jesus provides both Judaism and Christianity with a common point of connection via a shared theological heritage.
