There is no more practical book in the New Testament than James. Its abundant imperatives (more than any other New Testament book) and its striking imagery arm it to prick to conscience of 'double-minded' and presumptuous Christians as skillfully today as in the first century. No commentary drives home the significance of these instructions better than Dr. Richardson's. He has offered Bible students a thought-provoking and compelling examination of this wonderfully unsettling book.

Richardson writes with the profundity of a theologian, the acuity of a biblical scholar, and the intensity of the impassioned saint. His read of the merciful faith that swallows up God's just judgment effects not only a crystallizing center for the whole of the epistle but also renders the confusing stream of topics into a coherent theological power. One will never read the Letter of James the same way again.

David Moessner
Columbia Theological Seminary