Presentation Focus

Dr. Gerald McDermott will discuss a central theme of Jesus' teaching in the gospels, the Kingdom of God.  The talk will address such questions as the relative importance of the Kingdom as an early Christian theme, whether it had already arrived in Jesus or was future, whether it was visible or invisible--more internal to the heart or external in the world, whose Kingdom it is--the Father's or the Son's, and what it has to do with a future earthly restoration of Israel.

Bio

Dr. Gerald McDermott is retired from the Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School where he taught for five years after teaching world religions and Christian theology at Roanoke College for 26 years.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of two dozen books and hundreds of articles on three principal subjects--Jonathan Edwards, world religions, and the meaning of Israel. He and his wife Jean have three grown sons and twelve grandchildren.