Download or read book An African Commentary on the Letter of James written by J. Ayodeji Adewuya and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a necessary but an often neglected continent. So also is the letter of James necessary but neglected. Yet there is perhaps no biblical text that speaks to the life situation in Africa in the twenty-first century more directly than the book of James. An African Commentary on the Letter of James is an attempt to hear the message of James’s letter from a non-Western social and cultural setting. It seeks to demonstrate how one’s worldview, language, culture, economic status, and religion make a significant difference in appropriating the message of the biblical text. The commentary explores how the written word impacts the readers in a predominantly oral culture. It attempts to hear what James is saying from a different context but, in doing so, explains James with a different “voice.” Like the letter of James itself, the commentary uses pithy sayings, proverbs, and aphorisms to explain the meaning of the text.
Download or read book Africa Bible Commentary written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 1631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Africa Bible Commentary is a unique publishing event—the first one-volume Bible commentary produced in Africa by African theologians to meet the needs of African pastors, students, and lay leaders. Interpreting and applying the Bible in the light of African culture and realities, it furnishes powerful and relevant insights into the biblical text that transcend Africa in their significance. The Africa Bible Commentary gives a section-by-section interpretation that provides a contextual, readable, affordable, and immensely useful guide to the entire Bible. Readers around the world will benefit from and appreciate the commentary’s fresh insights and direct style that engage both heart and mind. Key features: · Produced by African biblical scholars, in Africa, for Africa—and for the world · Section-by-section interpretive commentary and application · More than 70 special articles dealing with topics of key importance in to ministry in Africa today, but that have global implications · 70 African contributors from both English- and French-speaking countries · Transcends the African context with insights into the biblical text and the Christian faith for readers worldwide
Download or read book A Commentary on the Epistle of James written by Sophie Laws and published by A & C Black. This book was released on 1980 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Message of James written by J. Alec Motyer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apostle James addressed his readers directly and pointedly, using vivid images from ordinary life and attention-gripping statements. In this revised BST volume, J. Alec Motyer's rich exposition brings James's letter to life for today's readers, drawing out memorable themes such as the link between enduring trials and maturity, the implications of careless and evil words, the need for purity, and more.
Download or read book The Letter of James written by Scot McKnight and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scot McKnight here explains the Letter of James both in its own context and as it may be seen in light of ancient Judaism, the Graeco-Roman world, and emerging earliest Christianity. From beginning to end, the book is shaped for pastors, teachers, and scholars. McKnight is less interested in shedding new light on James than on providing a commentary for those who want to explain the letter and its significance to congregations and classes. This commentary is accessible to a broad readership, at once full of insight and of good sense and wit that makes for good reading. The Letter of James is an especially helpful source for consultation as to what James is about.
Download or read book Black s New Testament Commentary James written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentary on the Letter of James written by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letter of James written by Douglas J. Moo and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books in the New Testament are better known or more often quoted as the Letter of James. Because James is so concise, so intensely practical, and so filled with memorable metaphors and illustrations, it has become one of the two or three most popular New Testament books in the church. This highly original commentary seeks to make the Letter of James clear and applicable to Christian living today. Interacting with the latest views on James but keeping academic references to a minimum, Douglas Moo first introduces the Letter of James in its historical context and then provides verse-by-verse comments that explain the message of James both to its first readers and to today's church.
Download or read book A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St James written by James Hardy Ropes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa Study Bible NLT written by and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 2162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.
Download or read book A Commentary on the Letter of James written by Shirley Sides and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a devotional commentary on the letter to the Christians in New Testament times, by the disciple James. He is teaching the life of faith and how it is outworked in the life of the Christian. This is no dry doctrine, but full of life and vitality. All who follow the Lord Jesus have the same Spirit of grace and faith. All will be taught by the same Spirit and their lives will be full of good fruit to God. This is not an aura of pseudo-spiritism, but the life of God worked out in thoughts, words and deeds. Without Faith it is impossible to please God, and without works it is impossible to see faith. The key phase is.... "Faith without works is dead..."
Download or read book A Commentary on the New Testament Letter of James written by George M. Stulac and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James written by Martha L. Moore-Keish and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter of James is the focus of the latest commentary in the Belief series. In the Letter of James, the writer sends encouragement to the early church, in the midst of the struggles and strife that marked its early days. Theologian Martha L. Moore-Keish guides the reader through the brief but important letter, most known for its discussion of the importance of actions to make a true life of faith. The volumes in the Belief series offer a fresh and invigorating approach to all the books of the Bible. Building on a wide range of sources from biblical studies and the Christian tradition, noted scholars focus less on traditional, historical and literary angles in favor of a theologically focused commentary that considers the contemporary relevance of the text.
Download or read book Commentary on the Letter of James written by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commentary on the Epistle of James Chapter Two written by James Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this book has been written to clean up some of the poorly worded text in the first edition and to show important Bible verses rather than just refer to them. In examining this second chapter of the epistle of James, authorship, time of writing, and its place in the canon are discussed. After that, the rest of the book focuses on not being a respecter of persons, everyone's guilt by the law, faith without works, and justification by works. Many people struggle with the contrast between faith and works. So this book shows the relationship between the two and how they work together in a Christian's life. We have been brought together by a common Savior for the common cause of exalting and glorifying our heavenly Father. Jesus loves everyone. He gave Himself for everyone. Why do people show preferential treatment to some and not to others? Why are many people prejudiced against certain segments or classes of humanity? Is being prejudiced always wrong? These are questions that require some consideration. We praise the apparently successful because they are apparently successful. However, God does not choose the poor to be the recipients of His faith just because they are poor. He also does not keep the rich from having the same because they are rich. Living on both sides of the grave equally well means to consider this life's decisions in light of how they will affect you for eternity. If being rich causes a person to ignore their need for the Lord, then that person would be much better off poor. Those that have received Christ's love are those that will share it. Those that have received His mercy are the ones that will extend it. Those that have a saving faith in Jesus are the ones that will perform the works of the Christian faith. Christians do not do the things that they do so that they can be Christians. They do them because they are Christians. When James asked if faith alone can save implying that good works should also be evident, he was really saying that believing "into" Jesus and having that unique relationship with Him causes us to do good works. We recognize His deity. We acknowledge His virgin birth, His sinless life, His death on the cross for our sins, His resurrection from the grave, and His ascension back to heaven. We do not just believe in the existence of some kind of faraway god. We believe in the one and only true God of the universe, the One that created everything and oversees all. We believe in the God of the Bible. We believe in the inerrancy of His Word because it is His Word. Therefore, may Christ be the One that gets all the honor and glory for what He has done and continues to do in the hearts and lives of those that trust Him.
Download or read book Sacra Pagina James written by Patrick J. Hartin and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his commentary on the letter of James, Hartin offers a unique approach toward understanding a much-neglected writing. Refusing to read the letter of James through the lens of Paul, Hartin approaches the letter in its own right. He takes seriously the address to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion" (1:1) as directed to Jews who had embraced the message of Jesus and were living outside their homeland, Israel. At the same time, Hartin shows how this letter remains true to Jesus' heritage. Using recent studies on rhetorical culture, Hartin illustrates how James takes Jesus ' sayings and performs them again in his own way to speak to the hearers/readers of his own world. Hartin examines the text, passage by passage, while providing essential notes and an extensive explanation of the theological meaning of each passage. The value of this commentary lies in its breadth of scholarship and its empathic approach to this writing. The reader will discover new and refreshing insights into the world of early Christianity as well as a teaching that is of perennial significance. Patrick J. Hartin was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome and is an ordained priest of the Diocese of Spokane, Washington. He holds two doctorates in Theology: in Ethics and in the New Testament, both from the University of South Africa. Presently he teaches courses in the New Testament and in Classical Civilizations at Gonzaga University. He is the author of eleven books, including: Apollos (Paul's Social Network series), James of Jerusalem (Interfaces series), and James, First Peter, Jude, Second Peter (New Collegeville Bible Commentary series), all published by Liturgical Press.
Download or read book Holy Bible NIV written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
