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[Emily Hartigan]

I was going to let it go, but reflection tells me it's important.
"Tight" foci sound like things Mary Jo Frug would have made hay on, but
I'll address the mundane level:  expertise is a double-edged notion, and
the "theology" about which I am concerned is indeed something about
which everyone is an expert, or lost.  It is how one  talks to God or
that-of-god-in-you, or your conscience, or Truth, or "matters of ultimate
concern" -- it is what will save (or not?) your soul, your self, your
values, your meaning.  It is not something taught in divinity schools
except haphazardly, and to cordon it off from the "technical" is to rob the
"technical" of its potential for true animation.  Law "and" must take the
"and" every bit as seriously as the law......if Doug and Sandy and the like
did not have what I recognize (they may demur) as spiritual sensibility,
then their technique would be as, well, a "sounding gong or a tinkling
cymbal" without meaning.  Some of your cherished "experts" have said
they want voices outside your tight focus.....what are you to do with
that?
Emily Fowler Hartigan
St. Mary's Law School
San Antonio, TX 78228
210-431-2273 (fax 436-3717)