One thing many of us have been taught in our various Christian traditions is that the thing Jesus refers to as “the Kingdom of God/Heaven” is something that is “here but not yet.”
The inference, of course, is that Jesus has inaugurated something that already fully exists, but has not yet come to be fully realized…or, perhaps more accurately, fully known and appreciated.
In our discussion video from The Work of the People this week, British author and Anglican priest Malcom Guite compares that tension between now and not yet to the complexities of a fine single malt Scotch. It is, Guite notes, a thing that is good in itself, but points beyond itself to something even better.
The problem, he points out, comes when we try to make the good thing the substitute for the better thing toward which it is guiding us.
So what is the better thing beyond the good thing that resurrection is trying to reveal to us?
We hope you’ll join us in the Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom this Sunday, May 18, for a discussion about “beyondness” and the transformation we must go through in order to experience it.
6:00pm ET: Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time)
6:30pm ET: Presentation & conversation begin
Check out this week’s discussion video!
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