This article investigates what is entailed in the claim that Christ is the meaning of history. It takes stock of the postmodern antipathy for metanarratives in order to understand both their failures and tendencies toward domination. In response, I draw on an Augustinian. christological hermeneutic for the Old Testament and find a parallel reading of history in the rhetoric of liberation theology that understands history in a sacramental, nontotalizing manner as the history of Christ. Reprinted by permission of the publisher..