Offer Them Life. Dan W. Dunn

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(4) the future, change, and progress; (5) goodness of humanity; (6) time (lineal); (7) achievement, action, work, and materialism; and (8) directness and assertiveness. Claude Fischer (Made in America, ix, 8–9) lifts up voluntarism (a combination of individualism and commitment to voluntary groups [more on this later]) as the most distinctive element of U.S. American culture, but also stresses the role of security, material goods, and self-perfecting. Steward and Bennett (American Cultural Patterns, 33–74) mention several of the themes that are highlighted by Althen and Bennett, plus they refer to pragmatism, null logic, causation, achievement, and time thrift.

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      Theological Foundation More Fully Developed

      Tension between the “Already” and the “Not Yet” of the Kingdom

      The importance of kingdom to Jesus’s ministry and teaching is seldom in dispute. However, Jesus’s kingdom imagery has been interpreted in a wide variety of ways through the years. One of the most important is whether and/or when the kingdom of God will be (or has been) fulfilled.

      For Dodd, therefore, the kingdom had already arrived in the person and ministry of Jesus. For Schweitzer the kingdom had not yet made its appearance or reached its fulfillment.

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