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| author | Edward William Taylor |
| title | A Justice Interpretation of the Kingdom of God in Mark, Q, the Gospel of Thomas and the Didache |
| abstract | This thesis identifies, compares, and analyzes the views of the kingdom of God in four early primary sources representing four
different communities to determine how each community understood the concept of the kingdom of God and to determine if there are differences in the understanding
among the communities and if so to account for the reason for those differences. The four primary sources used are two canonical sources: Mark and Q and two
non-canonical sources: The Gospel of Thomas and The Didache. In comparing the references to the kingdom of God within the sources, the sayings are placed within
five organic categories which arise from the texts themselves. Those categories are "like" sayings, "enter" sayings, "when" sayings, "where" sayings, and "blessing"
sayings. Once the sayings of the Kingdom have been analyzed in this way, they are further analyzed for commonalities to determine the most applicable interpretation
for the kingdom of God among three of the most common interpretation: apocalyptic, wisdom, and political. Form this analysis it is determined that a political
interpretation related to justice is most applicable. |
| school | The Theological School, Drew University |
| degree | M.A. (2017) |
| advisors | Dr. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Dr. Steven Moore |
| committee | Dr. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Dr. Steven Moore |
| full text | EWTaylor.pdf |
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