James, I-II Peter, Jude (Biblia.com)

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James has had a stormy and uncertain history in the Christian church. It had a difficult time getting into the New Testament, achieving canonical status in the Greek Church in the fourth century, the Latin Church in the fifth century, and the Syrian Church in the eighth century. Martin Luther famously judged James “an epistle of straw” and did not think it apostolic. R. A. Martin’s commentary on...

a way of salvation that contradicts the way of salvation taught in the rest of the New Testament, particularly in Paul’s letters. Again this is not so. There certainly is a difference in the way various New Testament writers talk about faith and about the life faith produces. But as will be shown in the interpretation of these verses, James is emphasizing a truth about faith which is not infrequently stated in the Gospels and which corresponds in content, and sometimes also in wording, with what

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