James 3: Practical religion, 1969

Record number
cm001625
Title

James 3: Practical religion

Date
1969
Medium
synthetic polymer paint
Support
hardboard
Dimensions
600 x 600 mm
Inscriptions

JAMES 3. PRACTICAL RELIGION. (brushpoint, t.r.); McCahon Oct. 13 (brushpoint, b.l.)

Credit line
Collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 2016. Partial gift of the K. P. Gosling Family Trust.
Accession number
2016/037
Extended inscriptions

as the body is dead when
there is no breath left
in it, so faith divorced
from deeds is lifeless
as a corpse.

Prove to me that this
faith you speak of
is real though not
accompanied by
deeds

"GOOD LUCK TO YOU,
KEEP YOURSELVES WARM, HAVE PLENTY TO EAT."

Exhibition history
Notes

The texts are James 2:26, 2:18 and 2:16 (not James 3 as inscribed), from the New English Bible.