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The “Catholic Letters” include James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1–3 John, and Jude. These letters are grouped together to distinguish them from the Pauline corpus (the thirteen previous letters, plus Hebrews). The letters, for the most part, address the Church as a whole—rather than specific churches or individuals—and contain religious instruction and moral teaching to encourage their readers to lead...
The Letter of St James heads up the list of “Catholic Letters”. Over the course of the centuries it has not been commented on to any great extent, probably because it has to do with moral as distinct from doctrinal matters; from the sixteenth century onwards commentators focused mostly on the subject of faith and works (cf. 2:14–26). Because of the paucity of commentaries and the complexity of the letter’s language (it is written in very sophisticated Greek,
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