Table of Contents
Notes to the English Editions 9
Book 1 The Kingdom of God in Christ's Preaching
Part I The Antecedents of Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom
Chapter 1 Introduction 13
Chapter 2 The Aryan Line of Development: The Kingdom of Asura 20
Chapter 3 The Israelite and Jewish Line of Development: The 'Malkuth Yahweh' 34
Part II The Kingdom of God as Preached by Jesus
Chapter 4 Characteristics of Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom 47
Chapter 5 Concerning the Eschatological Type and its Essential Irrationality 59
Part III The Original Element in Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom as Compared with the Message and Person of John the Baptist
Chapter 6 Theses 67
Chapter 7 The Kingdom of Heaven Replaces the Day of Yahweh 69
Chapter 8 The Kingdom of God at Hand as a Redemptive Realm of Salvation and as 'Dynamis' 72
Chapter 9 The Contrast between the Person and Message of Jesus and the Person and Message of John 76
Chapter 10 The Literary Treatment of Jesus' Pronouncements on the Inbreaking Kingdom 82
Part IV Detailed Consideration of the Message that the Kingdom Is at Hand
Chapter 11 The Kingdom of God Expels the Kingdom of Satan 97
Chapter 12 The Kingdom of God Exercises its Force 108
Chapter 13 God's Seed, not Man's Deed.-The Mystery Implied by the words 'Of Itself' 113
Chapter 14 The Mustard Seed, the Leaven, the Net, the Treasure in the Field, the Pearl of Great Price 123
Chapter 15 The Kingdom of God Is in Your Midst 131
Chapter 16 The Power to See the Mystery of the Kingdom of God as Already Present 138
Chapter 17 Hidden, That It May Become Manifest 147
Chapter 18 The Reasons for the Eclipse and Disappearance of the Idea of the Kingdom as Dawning Already 150
Chapter 19 Conclusion 155
Book 2 The Kingdom of God and the Son of Man
Chapter 1 Jesus as the Eschatological Redeemer and as Distinguished from all Mere Prophets and as Integral to the Eschatological Order Itself 159
Chapter 2 Jesus' Consciousness of Mission Regarded Apart from its Messianic Dress 162
Chapter 3 The Necessity of a Messianic Conception 174
Chapter 4 The Son of Man and the Book of Enoch 176
Chapter 5 Enoch Himself as the Son of Man 201
Chapter 6 Jesus' Messianic Utterances and Attitudes 219
Chapter 7 Jesus' Designation of Himself as the Son of Man 226
Chapter 8 Jesus' Designation of Himself as the Son of Man instead of the Simple Expression 'I' 230
Chapter 9 He That Is to Be Exalted 237
Chapter 10 The New 'Didache': The Messiah Who Saves through Suffering 244
Chapter 11 The Son of Man as the Suffering Servant of God 249
Chapter 12 The Ideas Associated with the Term 'Lutron' 256
Book 3 Christ's Last Supper as the Consecration of the Disciples for entrance into the Kingdom of God
Chapter 1 The New Testament Accounts of Christ's Last Supper 265
Chapter 2 The Original Account 269
Chapter 3 The Category of Christ's Action at the Last Supper 277
Chapter 4 The Eschatological Cup of Blessing 285
Chapter 5 The 'Diatheke' of a Looking Forward to the Kingdom of God 289
Chapter 6 The Word of Institution at the Distribution of the Bread: Christ not the Food of the Soul, but Broken in Death 296
Chapter 7 The Special Category of Christ's Action with the Bread 299
Chapter 8 The Acted Prediction, Typified by the Prophetic Oth 300
Chapter 9 Effective Representation with the Aim of Giving Participation in the Thing Represented 302
Chapter 10 The Associations of Sacramental Eating 306
Chapter 11 Summary of Results 310
Chapter 12 The Later Developments, Alterations, and Dislocations of Meaning 312
Chapter 13 Conclusion 330
Book 4 The Kingdom of God and the 'Charisma'
Chapter 1 The Charismatic Type 333
Chapter 2 Christ Himself Primarily Charismatic 344
Chapter 3 The Gift of Healing and Exorcism 346
Chapter 4 Charismatic Preaching and the Distinguishing of Spirits 351
Chapter 5 The 'Charisma' of Prophecy: Other Charismatic Traits 357
Chapter 6 Charismatic 'Apparitio': Christ's Walking on the Sea 368
Chapter 7 Conclusion 375
Book 5 Appendices
1 Windisch on the Pneumatic Character of Christ 379
2 Literary Comparison between the Preaching of Jesus and the Book of Enoch 382
3 The Enoch Tradition in the Formation of Legend in the Primitive Church 388
4 Son of Man and Primordial Man 389
5 No One Knows the Father Save Only the Son 393
6 Gnostic Elements in Enoch's Apocalyptic 396
Index of Names 399
Reference Index 402