Perhaps the ‘Exodus or Babylon’ options can serve as symbols of Liberation Theology and CST respectively. The latter appeals to a normative vision of social and political well-being: one which ac- knowledges the need for compromise and accommodation with secu- lar realities, while insisting that the common good must ultimately be underwritten by divine transcendence. On the whole, CST regards the capitalist system as capable of humanisation and reform. The model of Babylonian captivity, with all its ambivalence and the need for discernment, does indeed underlie much Christian reflection on the political, not least Augustine’s classic doctrine of the ‘Two Cities’.