THE KINGDOM OF GOD: ITS ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE, ITS RELATION WITH THE SALVATION OF MEN, ITS KING AND HIS ROYAL ACTS, POWERS AND HANDOVER.

A SYSTEMATIC-THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION

Abstract

The concept ‘Kingdom’ cannot be defined because it is an aggregate, and aggregates are not definable, they cannot be defined but rather described. Being an aggregate, a Kingdom can be described in two diverse modes: (i) through the indication of its components or constitutive elements, namely the persons and the things (acts, states and facts) that constitute it; or (ii) through the enunciation of a characteristic property, i.e. enunciation of a law that establishes if a certain being belongs or not to the Kingdom and, thus, defines the kingdom.