If this approach is correct, then a number of the difficulties and misunderstandings which have opened up over the years may be better appreciated, if not resolved. Was it ever fair to ask Liberation Theology to yield an alternative political or social vision; or does it rather address, in the name of the gospel imperative, aporias within our understanding of the political as such? If this is so, then it is time to stop criticising Liberation Theology for not being something else, much as one might be exasperated with a screwdriver for not being a hammer.