Firstly, the notion of the ‘State of Exception’, building on Giorgio Agamben’s elaboration of the concept of homo sacer, provides a possible way of clarifying Liberation Theology’s unique contribu- tion, and of explaining some of the aporias identified by both its proponents and its critics. This in turn helps to clarify how Libera- tion Theology might relate to CST. Secondly, the renewed discussion of global or cosmopolitan justice, insofar as it builds upon but goes beyond the classical but problematic formulation of justice by John Rawls, permits and invites renewed conversation about an achiev- able ‘realistic utopia’. Let me recap and embellish by means of five concluding theses: