Biblisch-Theologische Studien

-Kingdom of God" is one of the key terms of the New Testament but at the same time one of the most controversial.Should we understand God's Kingdom in a dynamic sense as God's present reign or rule, or in a spatial and/or temporal sense as realm and time of salvation? Is the Kingdom already a reality, has it started with Jesus and is in the process of becoming, or is it something that lies still in the future? Is the (be-)coming of the Kingdom a human task or solely God's own activity?This study challenges the prevalent interpretation which understands it predominantly as God's present,-dynamic" rule. Instead, the argument is made in favour of its understanding as the futuric realm and time of salvation and as such closer to-eternal life" than usually thought.