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James: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of James is full of advice on how Christians should live. Thus, some say it contradicts Paul's gospel of grace and faith, and they question its place in the canon. However, this commentary will show that James' and Paul's thoughts are complementary, not contradictory. C. Jeanne Orjala Serrão moves verse-by-verse through James after providing an in-depth introduction.

Kierkegaard “is probably the only person who is on record as having regarded the first chapter of the letter of James as his favourite portion of Scripture” (Bauckham 1999, 1). Although James was written in Greek, its thought-world is Jewish. For James there can be no true faith that does not affect the way one lives. In contrast to the Greek division of the person into body and mind (or body, mind, and spirit), Jews held a unified view of the person. Thus, what one really believes can be seen in
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