Table of Contents

Part One: Connections

1. The One with Whom We Have to Do: Critical Theological Concepts

2. The Human Project: Freedom and its Conditions

3. Setting the Stage: Revelation as a Process of Interpretation

4. The Basic Drama: Idolatry, Grace, Sin, Faith

5. The Life of Faith

Part Two: Connecting

6. The Prayer of Faith

7. Faith Enbodied: Power and Possessions

8. Doing the Truth in Love: Anger and Sexuality

9. Christian Realism: Evil and Suffering

10. Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom

Epilogue

About the Author

Luke Timothy Johnson, the author of the Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections on the Letter of James, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His works include The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Trust of the Traditional Gospels and The Letter of James, in the Anchor Bible series.