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Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the “non-Pauline epistles” or “concluding letters,” maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in plain sight, and it’s time to give them the attention they deserve. In Letters...

considering: first, the key terms “trials” (peirasmois) and “endurance” (hypomonēn) are often used in an eschatological context in Jewish and Christian writings; second, New Testament texts that are considered parallel passages to James 1:2–4 (1 Pet 1:7; Rom 5:3–4) are set within an eschatological context; and finally, James associates the overcoming of trials with receiving “the crown of life” (Jas 1:12; often understood as a reference to eternal life). These observations suggest that the goal
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