Eschatology- The early church

"The evangelist [John], therefore, is deliberately subordinating the 'futurist' element in the eschatology of the early church to the 'realized eschatology' which, as I have tried to show, was from the first the distinctive and controlling factor in the Kerugma. His theme is life eternal, that is to say, in eschatological language, the life of the Age to Come, but life eternal as realized here and now through the presence of Christ by His Spirit in the Church."

Dodd, The Bible & The Future -- Anthony A. Hoekema, Pg. 294 (appendix)