"The Time Is Fulfilled" - Jesus's Apocalypticism in the Context of Continental Philosophy

In this study, Lynne Moss Bahr explores the concept of temporality as central to Jesus-s proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Using insights from continental philosophy on the messianic, which expose the false claim that time progresses in a linear continuum, Bahr presents these philosophical positions in critical dialogue with the sayings of Jesus regarding time and time-s fulfillment. She shows how the Kingdom represents the possibilities of a disruption in time, one that reveals the intrinsic relation between God and humanity. In illustrating how Jesus-s sayings regarding time are thus expressions of his messianic identity-as of the world and not of the world--Bahr argues that the meaning of Jesus-s identity as Messiah is embedded in the disjuncture of time, in the impossibility of "now," from which the Kingdom comes . Bahr-s use of critical theory in this study expands the concept of God-s Kingdom beyond the traditional confines of the discipline.