Abstract

This article investigates the role of love in revelation, building on Jean-Luc Marion’s assertion that love precedes and forms us beyond knowledge and being. I argue that love has the capacity to manifest the kingdom of God, although it is never immediately revealed that we are part of such a manifestation. The article begins with a definition of love as primary, constitutive, divine, and always new. It then addresses manifestation and revelation in relation to the kingdom of God, looking closely at the parable of the sower (Mark 4:1–20) and the passage in Isaiah to which it refers (Is. 6:9–10). The article concludes by suggesting that when people act in love they manifest the kingdom of God. This claim extends Kevin Hart’s writing on the kingdom of God accepting, in contrast to Hart, Tamsin Jones’s understanding of divine action as preceding kenosis and enabling epektasis.