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1 2 | CHAPTER II - THE KINGDOM OF GOD~
2 2, 12 | Spirit. In this way the kingdom of God comes to be fulfilled:
3 2, 12 | comes to be fulfilled: the kingdom prepared for in the Old
4 2 | Christ Makes the Kingdom Present~
5 2, 13 | time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent
6 2, 13 | and establishment of God's kingdom are the purpose of his mission: "
7 2, 13 | at work in our midst. The kingdom of God is at hand (cf. Mk
8 2, 13 | clear that entry into the kingdom comes through faith and
9 2, 13 | of ethnic background.~The kingdom which Jesus inaugurates
10 2, 13 | Jesus inaugurates is the kingdom of God. Jesus himself reveals
11 2, 13 | God's merciful love. The kingdom will grow insofar as every
12 2 | Characteristics of the Kingdom and Its Demands~
13 2, 14 | characteristics and demands of the kingdom through his words, his actions
14 2, 14 | and his own person.~The kingdom of God is meant for all
15 2, 14 | salvation brought by the kingdom of God come to the human
16 2, 14 | also signify that in the kingdom there will no longer be
17 2, 14 | are signs that indeed "the kingdom of God has come upon you" (
18 2, 15 | 15. The kingdom aims at transforming human
19 2, 15 | world (cf. Jn 3:16). The kingdom's nature, therefore, is
20 2, 15 | another and with God.~The kingdom is the concern of everyone:
21 2, 15 | the world. Working for the kingdom means acknowledging and
22 2, 15 | transforms it. Building the kingdom means working for liberation
23 2, 15 | its forms. In a word, the kingdom of God is the manifestation
24 2 | In the Risen Christ God's Kingdom Is Fulfilled and Proclaimed~
25 2, 16 | definitely inaugurated his kingdom. During his earthly life,
26 2, 16 | Jesus was the Prophet of the kingdom; after his passion, resurrection
27 2, 16 | disciples recognize that the kingdom is already present in the
28 2, 16 | the disciples preach the kingdom by proclaiming Jesus crucified
29 2, 16 | preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus
30 2, 16 | find Paul "preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about
31 2, 16 | Christians also proclaim "the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph
32 2, 16 | Rev 11:15; 12:10), or "the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
33 2, 16 | Jesus Christ, with whom the kingdom was identified. Now, as
34 2, 16 | the proclamation of the kingdom of God (the content of Jesus'
35 2 | The Kingdom in Relation to Christ and
36 2, 17 | 17. Nowadays the kingdom is much spoken of, but not
37 2, 17 | needs. In this view, the kingdom tends to become something
38 2, 17 | within the confines of a kingdom of man, deprived of its
39 2, 17 | purely earthly progress. The kingdom of God, however, "is not
40 2, 17 | deliberately emphasize the kingdom and which describe themselves
41 2, 17 | witness to and serving the kingdom. It is a "Church for others"
42 2, 17 | promoting such "values of the kingdom" as peace, justice, freedom,
43 2, 17 | journey ever closer toward the kingdom.~Together with positive
44 2, 17 | silent about Christ: the kingdom of which they speak is "
45 2, 17 | redemption. Furthermore, the kingdom, as they understand it,
46 2, 18 | 18. This is not the kingdom of God as we know it from
47 2, 18 | it from Revelation. The kingdom cannot be detached either
48 2, 18 | not only proclaimed the kingdom, but in him the kingdom
49 2, 18 | kingdom, but in him the kingdom itself became present and
50 2, 18 | deeds: "Above all,...the kingdom is made manifest in the
51 2, 18 | many' (Mk 10:45)."22 The kingdom of God is not a concept,
52 2, 18 | invisible God.23 If the kingdom is separated from Jesus,
53 2, 18 | Jesus, it is no longer the kingdom of God which he revealed.
54 2, 18 | distortion of the meaning of the kingdom, which runs the risk of
55 2, 18 | one may not separate the kingdom from the Church. It is true
56 2, 18 | she is ordered toward the kingdom of God of which she is the
57 2, 18 | distinct from Christ and the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly
58 2, 18 | special connection with the kingdom of God and of Christ, which
59 2, 19 | that the reality of the kingdom is understood. Certainly,
60 2, 19 | understood. Certainly, the kingdom demands the promotion of
61 2, 19 | the living image of the kingdom. One need not fear falling
62 2 | Church at the Service of the Kingdom~
63 2, 20 | concretely at the service of the kingdom. This is seen especially
64 2, 20 | serving the coming of the kingdom in individuals and in human
65 2, 20 | Church, then, serves the kingdom by establishing communities
66 2, 20 | institutions.~The Church serves the kingdom by spreading throughout
67 2, 20 | are an expression of the kingdom and which help people to
68 2, 20 | inchoate reality of the kingdom can also be found beyond
69 2, 20 | temporal dimension of the kingdom remains incomplete unless
70 2, 20 | unless it is related to the kingdom of Christ present in the
71 2, 20 | The many dimensions of the kingdom of God29 do not weaken the
72 2, 20 | toward the eschatological kingdom, and is the sign and promoter
73 2, 20(29)| Character of the Church: Kingdom and Church."~
74 2, 20 | Finally, the Church serves the kingdom by her intercession, since
75 2, 20 | intercession, since the kingdom by its very nature is God'
76 2, 20 | us. We must ask for the kingdom, welcome it and make it
77 2, 20 | when Christ "delivers the kingdom to God the Father" and "
78 4, 34 | promoting the values of the kingdom. The specific nature of
79 4, 37 | proclamation of Christ and the kingdom of God must become the means
80 5, 46 | time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent
81 5, 47 | Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5). In Baptism,
82 5, 57 | Dialogue is a path toward the kingdom and will certainly bear
83 5, 59 | which is the building of his kingdom of peace and justice, beginning
84 6, 69 | in order to extend God's kingdom. In recent times many institutes
85 6, 70 | virginity for the sake of the kingdom is transformed into a motherhood
86 6, 71 | are called "to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal
87 7, 86 | as Jesus taught us: "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done,
88 8, 91 | shows concretely that the kingdom of God has already come,
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