{"product_id":"james-1-2-peter-1-3-john-gerald-l-bray-9780830814961","title":"James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude: Volume 11","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Award of Merit winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBecause the Catholic Epistles focus on orthodox faith and morals, the Fathers drew on them as a means of defense against the rising challenge of heretics.\u003c\/b\u003e Many of the Fathers saw in these letters anticipatory attacks on Marcion and strong defenses against the Arians. They did so quite naturally because in their view truth was eternal and deviations from it had existed from the beginning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, the Fathers found in the Catholic Epistles a manual for spiritual warfare, counsel for the faithful in the cosmic struggle between good and evil. In them was sound instruction in the ways of self-sacrifice, generosity, and humility, through which the cosmic forces could be defeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllusions to these letters go back as far as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian, but the first commentary derives from Clement of Alexandria. Didymus the Blind was the next significant Greek-speaking commentator, though his commentary is fully extant only in Latin translation. Many of the comments from the early centuries have been passed on to us through Latin \u003ci\u003ecatenae\u003c\/i\u003e, or chain commentaries, in which a later commentator collected comments from a variety of sources and chained them together in a fashion much like that of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture in English. Among Latin commentators on these letters, pride of place must be given to Bede the Venerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume opens up a treasure house of ancient wisdom that allows these faithful witnesses, some appearing here in English translation for the first time, to speak with eloquence and intellectual acumen to the church today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald L. Bray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0830814965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780830814961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e IVP Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 7.32w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Christianity Today Book Award - Winner","brand":"Gerald L. Bray","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583742701823,"sku":"9780830814961","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_404a7f85-71d6-4ed2-a753-74fcd2a2f0ec.jpg?v=1701883306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/james-1-2-peter-1-3-john-gerald-l-bray-9780830814961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}