Richard John Neuhaus calls this the most succinct and lucid statement of Pannenberg's overall enterprise available in English to date. Here the proponent of a theology of 'the resurrection elaborates' on 'the theology of reason' and 'the theology of the future'. Pannenberg is an innovator whose encompassing intention is to establish a new way of understanding the structure the general public understanding the structure of reality a theology that will illuminate the general public understanding of the nature of existence. These four essays discuss: Theology and he Kingdom of God; The Kingdom of God and the Church; The Kingdom of God and the Foundation of Ethics; and Appearance as the Arrival of the Future. The introduction by Richard John Neuhaus gives an informal but informed mental silhouette of Pannenberg's mind and personality.