... There is no agreement of date, authorship, or geographical origin of the letter between scholars. Sophie Laws, a professor of the University of London, says that the author is someone who took the name of James, a pen name, which was a common practice in Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. Laws also states that the letter is ... like 1 Peter and Clement of Rome. She dates the letter between 70 and 130 C.E. Peter Davids, a professor at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry believes the author is James, the brother of Jesus, and someone else edited it for him. Davids believes that the lett...

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... a generation that accept the teachings of the bible and that we must therefore reason with our generation as to their need of Christ at their area of felt need. The author takes the view that the need of our generation remains primarily their eternal soul and the church still has an obligation to declare the full council of God's word.2 Yes ... affection to hell? Migliore explains "By contrast, hell is best understood as wanting to be oneself apart from God's grace and in isolation from others. Hell is that self-chosen condition in which, in opposition to God's self-expanding loveHell i...

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... , Spirit-) must be questioned and replaced or augmented by better alternatives. Is Jesus Christ mainly to be remembered as the one who commanded his disciples to call God "Father-? One author after another, in more or less sophisticated ways, advances that because Jesus called God-Father-, Christians must qalways call God "Father-, at least when doing something important like baptizing or ... which, I think and believe, we are not at liberty to alter if we are to remain faithful in any way to its revelation. Not to do so means we have chosen another religion and altered the structure of ...

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... (the utterer's meaning), but to understand the meaning of the text itself (the utterance's meaning) (Wiklund, 2002, p114). When following the text beyond the situation and the intention s of the author, and beyond the reader's situation, the text discloses possible modes of being in the world that can be appropriated. Appropriation means to "make one's own- what was initially "alien- and ... all men were the sons of God and that they were born in the image of the Son and the Son was no different than themselves and the Son was chosen not by superiority of nature but by virtue of his sel...

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