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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...

concluding passage in James is recovering the erring brother or sister and contains an understood contrast drawn between the way that leads to death and the way of truth that leads to life (similar to the contrast between the desire-sin-death sequence and the God’s choice-by the word-life sequence seen in Jas 1:14–15, 18). This concluding passage is a command to recover any person who might wander from the truth, and a promise that whoever brings back a sinner “from the error of his way” (ek planēs
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