James

Rating:
Summary: Works-salvation nonsense
Review: To those who want a good and scholary commentary on James from a traditional Protestant perspective should definitely look elsewhere. Davids' comments on James 2:14-26 should make any good Protestant have the shivers. Davids' (contrary to Calvin and other good Protestant exegetes) argues that James promotes justification before God by our works. He also promotes the heresy of the New Perspective advocated by the likes of E. P. Sanders, James D. G. Dunn, and N. T. Wright. Davids (and all other New Perspectivists) have no problems with the idea of works being a means of obtaining future justification (since Paul was combating Jewish exclusivism not legalism). Let's be honest with ourselves. Any soteriological system that advocates works as a means of obtaining an eschatological justification is outside the boundaries of historic Protestantism.