Purity and Worldview in the Epistle of James

Arguing against restricting the meaning of purity language to the individual moral sphere (as many commentaries do), the central argument of*Purity and Worldview in the Epistle of James*is that purity language both articulates and constructs the worldview in James's epistle. Lockett offers a taxonomy of purity language, applied as a heuristic guide to understand the function of purity and pollution in the epistle. Through this analysis the study concludes that James is not calling for sectarian separation, but rather demonstrates a degree of cultural accommodation while calling forth specific socio-cultural boundaries between the readers and the world.Read less