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 polluti...