There was for Jesus, for earliest Christianity, and for Mark, one equally stunning and necessarily concomitant claim for that basic one about the already present kingdom of God, Son of Man, and general resurrection. If God’s Great Cleanup, God’s Eastertide Spring Cleaning of the world, had already begun, then it was as a collaborative effort. It was not, as it might have been imagined, an instantaneous flash of divine light, but an interactive process between divinity and humanity, a joint operation between God and ourselves. It is not us without God, or God without us. It is not that we wait
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