however, came at a price. To the extent that it was seen as the subjugation of kingly powers, it also became a challenge to political authority. The challenge would stoke the fires of a mutual “centralizing tendency,” a tendency that created serious tensions between pope and king. The Augustinian narrative had reframed political power as but one modest part of an organic yet hierarchical vision of the whole that placed the City of God as the overarching authority and the church on pilgrimage as its