to exonerate the historical church for its many sins. It calls instead for a set of practices which entail a way of repentance for Christian complicity with violence. Expressly theological politics is of course not immune to violence; it all depends on what kind of theology and what kind of politics is being imagined. Negatively, I want only to argue that the separation of power from any transcendent moorings has not made the world less violent, but has only made the violence more arbitrary and more