In this book, I have taken a closer look at Augustine’s sacramental vision in order to understand the status of politics in the City of God. Throughout, I have argued that the City of God is really an attempt to persuade the proud, all of us, of the virtue of humility. He does this by showing us the ugliness of the dynamics of the earthly city in a way that renders us complicit in its patterns of behavior even when we try to escape them by ourselves. If he can dispose us to see our need for the Mediator, Augustine hopes, we will realize that we have been interpreting the city of God through the eyes of the earthly city – as a community bound together by itslove for a common object, rather than by God’s love for humanity, which human beings receive and grow in. For Augustine, the world has always been cradled by God’s love, we have just forgotten this.