Stanley Fish is a respected literary theorist, a leading postmodernist, and op-ed contributor to the New York Times. His most recent article delineating two lines of Christian response to the current financial crisis, provoked an avalanche of responses. Fish depicts the orthodox Christian teaching of Total Depravity and draws the parallels to the current global economic crisis. Theologically, salvation comes from declaring our moral bankruptcy and our need to depend solely upon Jesus' atoning death on the cross. Economically, salvation comes about through our faith in the markets, through our faith in political leaders, through our faith in global economic trends. Fish, not one to stand on the side of the religious, suggests that God may be a better option then the markets... I'd agree.
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