The Wisdom of James
Like Duolingo, but for The Wisdom of James. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Theology of Action and The Social and Communal Ethic.
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Key ideas in The Wisdom of James
- Righteousness as a visible social reality
- Restoration of communal equity
- Validation by external fruit
- Royal Law as a hermeneutic
- Alignment with Jesus tradition
- Transformation of the Torah
- Dikaiosynē vs Forensic status
- Abraham as the covenantal peak
- Rahab as the marginalized outsider
- Social Dikaiosynē
- The literary merism of Abraham and Rahab
- Unified criterion of active faith
- The Royal Law as hermeneutic
- The Greek 'nekros' refers to a corpse—something that was meant to have life but is now inert
- The literary strategy behind pairing Abraham and Rahab
- James parallels the relationship between 'faith and works' to the relationship between 'spirit/breath (pneuma) and body'
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Wisdom of James the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When James uses the term 'Dikaiosynē', what does it imply about the believer's relationships?
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Where The Wisdom of James takes you
Move beyond the 'faith vs. works' debate to explore the Book of James as a sophisticated manual for the 'perfected' life, bridging Jewish wisdom literature and Christian ethics.
- 1
The Theology of Action
- Beyond the Faith vs. Works Dichotomy
- James as New Testament Wisdom Literature
- 2
The Social and Communal Ethic
- The Polemic Against Partiality
- The Liturgy of the Community
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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