For much of Christian history, Christians have usurped the vision and challenge of the Companionship of Empowerment (Kingdom of God). We tend to overspiritualize the concept, assigning it to personal spiritual growth or salvation in a world beyond.... The Companionship of Empowerment is based on a vision inspired by the lure of the future. In essence, commitment to the Companionship is about striving to make the world a better place for all God’s creatures, a rediscovery of paradise where all can live in the nonviolent power of justice and love. It may sound utopian, but without this utopia, evolution can never advance into the greater complexity that God seems to intend for all creation. In this understanding, the new vision of empowerment is not merely about people and the human situation; it also embraces transformative challenges of global and cosmic proportions.
Christianity’s Dangerous Memory: A Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Jesus by Diarmuid O’Murchu, pp.34-36.