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Mar 16, 2017 · James does assume massive truths, and that’s okay. No single biblical book or apostolic epistle — not even Romans — tells the whole story on its own, or provides all the essential details. God, his Son, his gospel, his world, and the Christian life are more richly complex than a single epistle.
- Epistle of Straw?
- Not as Some Suspect
- Nothing of The Gospel?
- Born Again by What?
- Saved by What?
- Doers of What?
- He Gives, We Receive
Not most troubling, but perhaps most in need of clarification today among some Lutherans and Reformed types, is what you said about the epistle of our Lord’s brother, James. You wrote in 1522, in the preface of your German translation of the New Testament, “St. James’s epistle is really a right strawy epistle, compared to these others [Romans, Gala...
When you referred to James as an epistle of straw, you did not question its inclusion in the canon of Scripture, but sought to clarify its place with regard to expressing the gospel (in particular, justification by faith alone). When you said “straw,” you had in mind the apostle Paul’s categories from 1 Corinthians 3:12: “Now if anyone builds on th...
Perhaps you’d quickly recant your unnuanced statement without my trying to make any case for it, but if it would help to display some data, here’s my modest attempt. To focus my claim, let me say it is emphatically notthe case that James “has nothing of the nature of the gospel about it.” “It is emphatically not the case that James ‘has nothing of ...
The first mention is verse 18 in the phrase “the word of truth.” What does James have in mind with this phrase? This “word of truth” is not simply true facts about the world, or even holy writ, but that which is the center and sum of the Bible, none other than the message of our Lord’s life, death, and resurrection for sinners. Of his own will [God...
Next is verse 21: “Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” What is this “implanted word”? Again, James is not coy. This word “is able to save your souls.” This “word” is not general truth from nature, or even one of many of various auxiliary truths revealed in Scripture. This is the message of the gospel. Verse ...
Verse 21, then, leads into James’s famous “doers of the word” paragraph (verses 22–25). Tracing James’s use of “word” in his flow of thought, and owning that “word” here in verses 22–23 is a nickname for what you call “the gospel,” what if we restate James’s charge as “be doers of the gospel”? From your statements about James, I would have to presu...
Apart from simply tracing the gospel-word concept through this key section in chapter 1, we should note good-news revelations made of God and his good-news promises. Consider just the specific expressions of grace to weary souls in chapter 1. For those lacking wisdom, God “gives generously to all without reproach” (James 1:5). To the one who keeps ...
William James’s paper “The Will to Believe” defends some distinctive and controversial views about the normative standards that should be adopted when we are reflecting upon what we should believe.
- Christopher Hookway
- 2011
James argues that we may be justified in adopting a belief even if we don’t have enough prior evidence in support of it, and in some cases, 1) we may only have access to supporting evidence only after we have adopted the belief, or 2) our adoption of the belief may make the belief true.
May 28, 2006 · In the present essay, I isolate the elements in James's theory of truth and show how they were linked by James's metaphysics of radical empiricism. Type Chapter
This pragmatist talk about truths in the plural, about their utility and satisfactoriness, about the success with which they ‘work,’ etc., suggests to the typical intellectualist mind a sort of coarse lame second-rate makeshift article of truth.
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To say that an action is pragmatically rational implies that it is in one's best interests to do that action. Rationality and truth can diverge, of course. But in the absence of conclusive evidence of truth, Pascal contends, rationality should be our guide.
