Faith in the Letter of James
Disestablishment and the Church of England with Special Reference to English Ethnicity
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
Faith in the Letter of James is a theological endorsement of the New Testament letter of James and relates this to a call for the disestablishment of the Church of England. It is not a conventional commentary: not crammed with Greek words or preoccupied with authorship and the direction of diasporic travel for the gospel message. There are such books on the market already, and if those aspects are of most interest to the reader, then this reflection is not for them. This book shall be concerned with what the letter of James means today, reading the New Testament in the language and structure of the Anglicized Edition of the NRSV. Faith in the Letter of James is about the Church of England and its establishment status in English society. With current developments in the Church of England, including Archbishop Welby’s resignation over safeguarding failures, the institution has come under global scrutiny and, at the time of writing this commentary, continues in crisis. This scandal will remain the context for church history and theological writing for many years to come and is certainly the context for Faith in the Letter of James.
Endorsements (4)
“In their exploration of the book of James, David and Linda Isiorho call us back to the faith of the disciples, to the faith that Jesus lived, taught, and shared with those earliest followers. It is often forgotten that James was written close to the time of Christ, some think as early as AD 55, certainly before the Gospel writers. A valuable contribution from the Isiorhos providing insight and challenge. I commend it to you.”
“From the perspective of Judeo-Islamic hermeneutics and scriptural ethics, I am honored to commend this commentary on James for its rigorous scholarship and prophetic spirit. David and Linda Isiorho read the Epistle with moral seriousness, attentiveness to suffering, and a courageous alertness to the biblical text. The work joins insight to lived justice, offering a demanding vision of faith as practice, integrity, and accountability before God, and envisioning a society grounded, dialogical, and integrally humane.”
“Christianity’s entanglement with state power, from the Roman Empire under Constantine onwards, has been a betrayal of the way of Jesus of Nazareth, and the mutually collusive relationship between the Church of England and the powers-that-be of the English Establishment continues that betrayal. Anyone who is asking critical questions of this, rooted in the witness of Scripture, is worth giving serious attention.”
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