This does not sound like a project for “transforming” the empire. To recall O’Donovan’s formulation, “The most truly Christian state understands itself most thoroughly as ‘secular.’ ”23 It knows what time it is, is awaiting a coming King, and has expectations disciplined by this eschatology. Nonetheless, second, that does not excuse us from the creaturely calling to respond to creation’s own call for political realization. In other words, the cultural work of creating polities is something that is