The main thing we are left with — the heart and core of the Jesus vision — is the Basileia, variously translated as the Kingdom of God, the New Reign of God, or my own favourite the Kindom of God. This phrase occurs over 140 times in the four Gospels and encapsulates everything that Jesus lived for, died for and represented in his very existence. Precisely because of our tendency to personalise great religious personages, within the formal religions, and turn them into divine, individualistic heroes, it seems that we have misinterpreted the Jesus movement right from its origins.

Diarmuid O'Murchu, Religion in Exile