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James 3:1-12
- Reading the Text:
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit:
Slander, Gossip, and Foul
Speech.
- Vision
II.2, Commandment
V.1, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
- Chapter VI,
On Patience, Tertullian (c.
202)
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "Let no man usurp (as most men
ambitiously do) authority to judge and censure others harshly."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "The affairs of mankind are
thrown into confusion by the tongues of men."
- From Wesley's Notes.
- "St. James here, as in several
of the following verses, by a common figure of speech, includes
himself: we shall receive, - we offend, - we put bits, - we curse -
None of which, as common sense shows, are to be interpreted either
of him or of the other apostles."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "At first all were allowed to
teach in turns. Even their inspired gifts did not prevent liability
to abuse, as James here implies: much more is this so when
self-constituted teachers have no such miraculous gifts."
- From
The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "Do not many of you seek to be
teachers. The office of public teaching in the church is
meant."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Articles & Background:
-
"Heard
about the Pastor Who...? Gossip as an Ethical Activity," The
Christian Century, 1990.
- "Gossip, as a church activity without
malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a
primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral
data about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it
means to be baptized."
-
"Mind Your Tongue: Reflections on Christian Conversation," William E.
Hulme, Word & World, 1986.
-
"(An)Other
Terrain for Thought: 'Good Gossip'," Mary Leach, Ohio State
University.
- "The very notion of gossip,
positioned as it is, outside of if not contrary to normalized,
disciplinary philosophical convention, suggests to me a possible
route of escape, providing moments to re\think, to re\fuse what we
are, to con\test the dominant in order to move to some place which
might be named a counter discourse of feminist imaginaries."
- Response: "Where's
the Good?" Suzanne Rice, University of Kansas.
- "Mary's
paper invites inquiry into the "kinds of relations
constructed when we engage in...gossiping." Her own inquiry
focuses mainly on the activity of gossiping itself and on the
relations between those who gossip. I hope to contribute to this
discussion by examining the relation between the activity of
gossip and its content and the relation between gossipers and
those about whom they gossip."
-
"The New Word on Gossip," Nigel Nicholson, Psychology Today,
2001.
- "Nigel Nicholson, Ph.D., discusses the
evolutionary reasons why humanity is a beehive of communication."
-
"Barriers to Willing One Thing: Variety and Great Moments Are Not One
Thing," Chapter 3 in
Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing by Sören Kierkegaard,
1938.
- "But talk takes the name of enthusiasm
in vain by proclaiming loudly from the housetop what it should work out in
silence. And in the midst of the trivial details of life these
enthusiastic words are quickly forgotten."
- Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
- Culpepper, R. Alan,
"The Power of Words and the Tests of Two Wisdoms," Review and Expositor,
1986.
- Hinkle, Mary E.,
"Lesson Plans," The Christian Century, 2003.
- Hulme, William E.,
"Mind Your Tongue: Reflections on Christian Conversation," Word and
World, 1986.
- Marty, Martin E.,
"Keep It to Yourself," The Christian Century, 2005.
- Stacy, R. Wayne,
"The Power to Bless: James 3:1-12 (A Sermon)," Review and Expositor,
2000.
- Talbert, Charles H.,
"James: Teaching Outlines and Selected Sermon Seeds," Review and
Expositor, 2000. (See especially, "On the Tongue," (p. 175.))
- Watson, Duane F.,
"The Rhetoric of James 3:1-12 and a Classical Pattern of Argumentation,"
Novum Testamentum, 1993.
- Wenig, Margaret Moers,
"Sacred Speech - Sacred Communities," Reconstructionist, 2002.
- Willimon, William H.,
"Heard about the Pastor Who...Gossip as an Ethical Activity," The
Christian Century, 1990.
- Reviews:
- Sermons:
- With Children:
-
"Watch What You Say!"
Talks to Children, Rev. Donald
McCorkindale, Dalgety Parish Church, Fife, Scotland.
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