Kingdom of God (Christian denominational variations)

[1] As new Christian denominations have emerged, experiments linking personalism with ideas about the sharing of property found in the Acts of Apostles have produced eschatological perspectives that include social and philanthropic issues in the religious interpretation of the Kingdom of God.

[2][3] Thus the denominational attempt at incorporating the ideals expressed in the Acts of Apostles regarding the sharing of property within the Christian community came to interact with the social issues of the time to produce various interpretations regarding the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

[2][3] Eschatological perspectives that emphasized the abandonment of the utopian visions of human achievement and the placement of hope in the work of God whose Kingdom were sought thus resulted in the linking of social and philanthropic issues to the religious interpretations of the Kingdom of God in ways that produced distinct variations among denominations.

For example, John Disney in his Reasons for quitting the Church of England (1873) speaks of "the future everlasting kingdom of God".

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) teaches that the coming Reign of God will be a kingdom of love, peace, and justice.

[18] Within the theological tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church the kingdom of God is the present and future of all mankind and the created world.

[19] Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the kingdom of God is the central theme of the Bible, of Jesus' message while on earth, and of their own door-to-door preaching.

[29] However, Latter-day Saints believe that this theocratic "kingdom" will in fact be quasi-republican in organization (theodemocracy), and will be freely chosen by the survivors of the millennial judgments rather than being imposed upon an unwilling populace.