The central problem of the doctrine of creation – why did God create the world? – has important parallels with the central problem of the fall – how did sin enter the world? Both problems are essentially problems of freedom, of inexplicable decision – problems, that is, of sovereignty. This chapter will explore these parallel problems of creation and fall alongside the world of Carl Schmitt’s notion of the political, which sees the sovereign decision as central both to the problem of the creation of political order and also to the problem of enmity, of conflict. Tracing the problem of enmity through the history of Christian theology, this paper will consider the problems of economy, sovereignty and decision alongside an exploration of Lacan’s psychoanalytic typology of the different social forms which emerge out of different styles of relating to these fundamental problems of division and disagreement. How might Christian theology better respond to the economic problems of division and enmity?