ABSTRACT

In Ludwig Wittgenstein's sense of the "home" setting of a language-game, eschatology is the home setting in which the logic of justification by faith properly functions. J. A. Ziesler, like most Pauline interpreters, tends to ask the question about righteousness outside a given language-game. James is neither merely attacking someone else's view of faith; nor merely saying that faith must be supplemented by works. D. M. High points out that Wittgenstein's work on the grammar of belief is part and parcel of his all-out attack on various kinds of dualism; between fact and value, between mind and body, between faith and reason, and between knowledge and belief. An elucidation of the grammar of the concept of faith has helped us to see at least part of what is at issue in the apparent contradiction between Paul and James. E. Kasemann speaks of the "tensions" of Paul's language, and the "logical embarrassment" in which he places the modern reader.