Basileia (pronounced boss-eh-LAY-a) is the Greek word for kingdom and is used to designate Basileia (spelled in small caps), an ecclesial expression of the Church in communion with Communio Christiana. Thus the designation “Basileia,” while it can be thought of organizationally, is more fundamentally a culture, a worldview, a charism, a mindset, a way of doing the Christian faith given by Christ to the members of Basileia. While Basileia has distinctive ways defined in its Constitution for making visible the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, it affirms that kingdomculture is the true culture of all believers individually and of the Body of Christ collectively. Kingdomculture is therefore destined to be the culture of heaven and earth ultimately. It is within that vision of things that Basileia therefore describes itself not as the kingdomcultural alternative, but as a kingdomcultural alternative – an alternative in unity with all other ecclesial kingdomcultural alternatives to all subcultural and countercultural forms of the faith captive and conformed to the pattern of the fallen world.
Also see kingdomculture.