Artur Rosman

The Letter of James

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The greatest surprise of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation was the sheer number of prominent Protestant theologians announcing its end. If the Reformation project of a ‘faith vs. works’ Paulinism has run out of steam, then the ‘What is to be done?’ question arises. Addison Hodges Hart’s The Letter of James has a plausible answer in precisely a believing-through-doing approach to faith, orthopraxy, based upon James. This return of the repressed Jamesian ‘faith through works,’ simultaneously ancient and post-modern, is presented not merely as a rival to early-modern (and ancient) Paulinisms, but also unearths resources for a reading of the Pauline corpus against Paulinism through orthopraxy.”