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A wrong emphasis on works (art. XII)

August 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments · 39 Articles, Anglican

(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
The twelfth article is one of several dealing with that hot topic of the Reformation, the relationship of faith and works. I’ve already noted my view that Paul is not, in fact, talking about the same things as the [...]

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James and Johnannine sectarianism

August 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Early Church, Gospels, John

I confess to a fairly thoroughgoing ignorance of scholarship on John, so for all I know this ground is well-trod elsewhere, though I haven’t tracked anything down. But it seems to me that while everybody admits, in varying degrees if discord, to serious disagreements between James and Paul, the Jerusalem church and the Pauline mission, [...]

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