have understood themselves quite consciously as a “kingdom” movement of sorts, for whom the cross became a central symbol for what the kingdom stood for. Paul’s few scattered reference to “kingdom” suggests that it was a virtual abbreviation for the work that he was doing (Rom 14:17; 1 Cor 4:20; Col 1:13; 4:11), something still to be entered into or inherited in the future (1 Cor 6:9–10; 15:24, 50; Gal 5:21; 1 Thess 2:12; 2 Thess 1:5), and something that was also christologically constituted so that