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: Less than the LeastStanley Fish on Christianity and Bankruptcy--Skeel
By David Skeel and Bill Stuntz
A student emailed me this marvelous commentary by Stanley Fish, which I hadn't seen. I'll only add two brief thoughts, since Fish speaks for himself as always: 1) the two Christian discourses Fish discusses don't strike me as necessarily at odds with one another—any more than faith and works are; and 2) the forgiveness offered by Christ, and the economic imagery so often used to describe it, was of course vividly foreshadowed in the Old Testament by the Jubilee (Leviticus 25), which had both practical and spiritual significance.
Full post as published by Less than the Least on March 08, 2009 (boomark / email).
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