To be sure, the practices of the sabbatical and jubilee years cannot simply be transposed to our society. Like most biblical injunctions literal application is simply not possible. But the concepts of equality and freedom that the sabbatical and jubilee years were intended to preserve are still vital and valid. How Third World debt can be restructured or forgiven is an open question. But the biblical jubilee provides Christians with an idea, a challenge, a divine ideal, that should guide our participation in the dialogue.
Imagination is stirred by considering a jubilee.
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