Augustine of Hippo provided the seed form of a Christian humanism which celebrates human feeling, desire, reason, and embodiment. This affirmation of our human nature, and the good origin of desire within us is regained through the incarnation of Jesus Christ. For Augustine, this divine affirmation of our human nature has a prophetic quality within a classical world which did not share the Christian understanding of how human flourishing and blessedness was ultimately attained. For Augustine, the incarnation did not just affirm the goodness of our human nature and emotions, but also the pathway to its recovery in the humble descent or forma servi of the Incarnation. In this lecture, I explore City of God XIV and other places where Augustine affirms the good nature and rational intelligence of redeemed human emotions, alongside the radical effects of the Fall on them. From this brief exploration, the lecture illumines how Augustine can help us chart a course to renew a Christian humanism through a reappraisal of the via humilitatis, where, as Donovan Schaefer observes, politics has become mere affect.