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October 27, Ordinary 30C (Luke 18:9-14)
Jesus' characters aren't nuanced; they're all elbows and ankles.
by JoAnn A. Post
The Pharisees are usually viewed as simply majoring in minutiae. But that does a disservice to them and obscures the issues.
Jesus is not accusing the Pharisees of an early form of Pelagianism.