The fact that the present experience of salvation is a detour does not detract from the fact that the kingdom is really present now - but in a determined modality. The unveiling of this kingdom will be a new act of God and in no sense can we act as if this unveiling has already taken place. There is a distinct eschatological border between the regnum Christi and the regnum Dei . The social ideal is an eschatological prospect. In the present we get no further than the church and christianization.
Guilt lies too deep in existence and society for it to be done away with all at once.
It must first be reconciled - we must allow it to be reconciled. Before the social ideal there is the unio mystica cum Christo . In the present God is struggling with the flesh and in christianization man and culture are stamped with the form of Christ. But there is never a complete synthesis of creation and redemption in this dispensation. In the eschaton we will be what God intends us to be -true man and true woman, but in the present we only gain our true being fragmentarily and ambiguously in Christ through the Spirit.