5. In the light of the above, the relation between the Theology of Liberation and CST may be very crudely stated as fol- lows. CST seeks to envisage a normative vision of political existence, while Liberation Theology puts forward an essential criterion or feature of ‘any politics worthy of the name’: in its partisanship for homo sacer, for the victim who testifies in his or her suffering both to the liberating will of God, and to the literal inhumanity of the political system, which deprives him of anything other than biological existence. It is, one may argue, the task of CST to articulate the notions of freedom and liberty which are absent or under-theorised in Liberation Theology. Contemporary discussions of ‘realistic utopia’ and cosmopolitan justice will surely have a contribution to make here.