Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, 713 pp, trans. G. W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998), 3:Ch. 15, esp. section 1, p. 531. Pannenberg claims that the future of God’s reign is already present in the ministry of Christ and the church, but this claim anticipates and depends crucially on its eschatological confirmation. Throughout his writings Pannenberg will insist that Christian theology must not be in contrast to or conflict with natural science, and that the deity of God depends on the eschatological consummation of the world.