Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, Repackaged ed.
Overview
This contemporary classic by renowned scholar Gordon Fee explores the Spirit’s significant role in Pauline life and thought.
After Fee published his magisterial God’s Empowering Presence, he was asked to write a more accessible volume that would articulate Paul’s priorities for experiencing the life of the Spirit in the church. Fee’s bestselling introduction to Paul and the Spirit, Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, went on to sell over 70,000 copies. This book by one of the greatest evangelical and Pentecostal New Testament interpreters of our time argues that the presence of the Spirit is, for Paul and for us, the crucial matter for the Christian life.
This repackaged edition features new study questions, and a foreword by Dean Pinter, who commends the book to a new generation of readers.
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- Explores the Spirit’s significant role in Pauline life and thought
- Argues that the presence of the Spirit is, for Paul and for us, the crucial matter for the Christian life
- Features new study questions and foreword
- Foreword by Dean Pinter
- Overture—An Invitation to Read Paul Anew
- A “Theology” of the Spirit? The Spirit in Pauline Theology
- God Revisits His People—The Spirit as the Renewed Presence of God
- The Holy Who? The Spirit as Person
- God in Three Persons—The Spirit and the Trinity
- The Beginning of the End—The Spirit as Evidence of the “Presence of the Future”
- A People for His Name—The Spirit and the People of God
- Conversion: Getting In (Part 1)—The Spirit and the Hearing of the Gospel
- Conversion: Getting In (Part 2)—The Spirit at the Entry Point
- Conversion: Staying In (Part 1)—The Spirit and Pauline Ethics
- Conversion: Staying In (Part 2)—The Fruit of the Spirit
- The Ongoing Warfare—The Spirit against the Flesh
- Power in Weakness—The Spirit, Present Weakness, and Prayer
- To the Praise of His Glory—The Spirit and Worship
- Those Controversial Gifts? The Spirit and the Charismata
- Where to from Here? The Spirit for Today and Tomorrow
- Appendix—Spirit Baptism and Water Baptism in Paul
Gordon Fee’s earlier scholarly tome on Paul’s theology of the Holy Spirit is without dispute the most thorough work on the subject ever yet produced. The fruit of that detailed labor is made accessible to a wider range of readers in his Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God. For anyone interested in this major Pauline theme, and in the work of the Spirit, this work is indispensable. It helps us reframe in more biblical terms our thinking about the central role of the Spirit.
—Craig S. Keener, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary; author of Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today
The past decades have demonstrated an ongoing interest in topics such as Paul’s relationship to the Jewish law and how Paul’s view of Christian ethics affects Christian life today. In Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, Fee insists that the Spirit is the key to answering such questions, as the experience of the Spirit’s presence was the best Jewish evidence available for Paul’s argument that God’s future (the kingdom of God) is available to God’s people in the present. If you long to see more of the Holy Spirit in the pages of Scripture as well as in your own life, this book is for you.
—Holly Beers, associate professor of religious studies, Westmont College
Fee, truly one of our master exegetes, has put steel and sinew into the words Spirit, spirit, and spiritual. His accurate, fresh, and passionate recovery of the place and meaning of Spirit in Paul and for us Christians is a provocative stimulus and reliable guide to the recovery of the experienced presence of God in our lives.
—Eugene H. Peterson†, Regent College
- Title: Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
- Author: Gordon Fee
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 204
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Holy Spirit › Biblical teaching; Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology
- ISBNs: 9781493440023, 9781493440030, 9781540966438, 9781540966025, 9780801046247, 1565631706, 1493440020, 1493440039, 1540966437, 154096602X, 0801046246, 9781565631700
- Resource ID: LLS:PLSPRTPGDRPCKGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-25T01:33:26Z
Gordon D. Fee (1934–2022) was a leading expert in pneumatology and textual criticism of the New Testament. He was an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God and served as professor emeritus of New Testament studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Fee earned degrees from Seattle Pacific University and University of Southern California. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Northwest University. Before teaching at Regent College, Fee taught at Wheaton College, Vanguard University of Southern California, and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Fee was a member of the Committee on Bible Translation that translated the New International Version and its revision, the Today’s New International Version.
In addition to Fee’s many highly respected commentaries in series like the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series: New Testament and The New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT), he is also the author of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, God’s Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul, Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study, and To What End Exegesis?