Non-contrastive theology, instanced in thinkers such as Herbert McCabe and Kathryn Tanner, holds that God and creatures do not occupy a shared logical space and therefore are not in 'metaphysical competition'. In particular, there is no causal competition between God and creatures. This talk argues that recognition of the non-contrastive nature of divine and creaturely agency is liberative in effect, and provides three examples of this. With respect to the Bible, recognition of non-contrastive agency allow us to endorse the theological claim that the Bible is the word of God without thereby denying its genuine human authorship. This allows us to engage in critical and historical study of the biblical texts without prejudice to claims about the theological status of those texts. With regard to the conference theme, this is of particular importance when we pay attention to politically engaged biblical study. With regard to liberation theologies, a non-contrastive approach permits recognition of genuine human agency with respect to a theologico-historical narrative according to which God is the liberator. The latter claim can, without careful theological attention, issue in a quietism at odds with the aims of liberation theologies yet easily read into their favoured biblical texts (the story of the Exodus being an obvious example here). In the domain of psychology, we may want to keep open the possibility that certain out-of-the-ordinary experiences falling within the diagnostic remit of mental disorders are nevertheless occasions of positive personal transformation, and indeed of socially-salient transformation (Laing is an important interlocutor here), these being religiously inflected. We can maintain these experiences as being of theological worth without denying the possibility of a naturalistic explanation through appeal to a non-contrastive theology.