Is The Book of James Proto-Marxist?

Is The Book of James Proto-Marxist? September 4, 2012

If someone is naked, starving, and wrongly imprisoned, your faith and beliefs are barely relevant, if at all, to their plight. As The Book of James argued two millennia ago, “faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.”

I explore this idea further in my new post at [The Hardest Question] on “Luther Was Wrong: Behavior Is Believable”:

http://thq.wearesparkhouse.org/featured/ordinary23bepistle

 

The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg is a trained spiritual director, a D.Min. graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, Maryland. Follow him on Facebook (facebook.com/carlgregg) and Twitter (@carlgregg).

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