Listening to the Spirit in the Text
Overview
For many years Gordon Fee, one of today’s foremost evangelical scholars, has been asked to bring his trusted biblical expertise together with his well-known passion for the gospel and the church. Listening to the Spirit in the Text is his answer. Gathered here are Fee’s best studies and reflections on the art of attending to the biblical text critically yet with a deep spiritual sensitivity. These insightful chapters cover a wide range of contemporary topics, including the relationship between Bible study and spirituality, gender issues, worship, speaking in tongues, church order and leadership, the believer and possessions, and the role of the gospel in our global society.
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- Links the Holy Spirit to world missions
- Explores Pauline spirituality
- Examines the role of the Holy Spirit in biblical interpretation
- The Text and the Life in the Spirit
- Exegesis and Spirituality: Completing the Circle
- Reflections on Commentary Writing
- On Being a Trinitarian Christian
- Some Reflections on Pauline Spirituality
- The New Testament View of Wealth and Possessions
- Gender Issues: Reflections on the Perspective of the Apostle Paul
- The Bishop and the Bible
- The Text and the Life of the Church
- The Holy Spirit and Worship in the Pauline Churches
- Toward a Pauline Theology of Glossolalia
- Laos and Leadership under the New Covenant
- Reflections on Church Order in the Pastoral Epistles
- The Kingdom of God and the Church’s Global Mission
Top Highlights
“I propose, (1) that faithful biblical exegesis belongs within the framework of the believing community, with those who follow—whether exactly so or not, but intentionally so—in the train of the original believing communities for whom and to whom these documents were written; and, (2) that such exegesis must always take into account the Spiritual purposes for which the biblical documents were written, as Spirituality has been defined in the preceding section of this paper.” (Page 10)
“God’s purposes in creating beings like ourselves, fashioned in his image, was for the purposes of relationship—that we might live in fellowship with the Living God, as those who both bear his likeness and carry out his purposes on earth.” (Page 6)
“What I propose to examine is the interface between exegesis and spirituality, between the historical exercise of digging out the original intent of the text and the experience of hearing the text in the present in terms of both its presupposed and intentional spirituality. Thus I will attempt to address three matters: first, a few words about spirituality; second, some words about exegesis; and finally, some suggestions as to how these two must interface in order for us to be interpreting Scripture properly on its own terms.” (Page 4)
“The key is to be found in one’s overall stance toward Scripture, from beginning to end. This includes several things, but at least it means to come to the text with an absolute conviction that it is God’s word; that here God speaks and we listen. Thus our concern in coming to the text is to hear from God.” (Page 14)
These essays show Gordon Fee at his characteristic work, fusing exegetical accuracy and evangelical passion. Words are never mere words for this master exegete. I think of him as our ‘resurrection scholar,’ calling the words out of the text and setting them before us pulsing with life.
—Eugene Peterson, professor of spiritual theology, Regent College
This set of biblical explorations—mostly Pauline, as we would expect—demonstrates Gordon Fee’s strength in exegesis, biblical theology, and hermeneutics as he pursues his trinitarian, churchly, life-centered concerns. Fee is a Pentecostal pneumatologist without peer. In his large hearted service of the biblical text he is in every way a model. Brilliant and simple, these chapters will enrich all who take the Bible seriously.
—J.I. Packer, professor of theology, Regent College
- Title: Listening to the Spirit in the Text
- Author: Gordon Fee
- Publishers: Eerdmans, Regent College Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 190
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Spiritual life › Biblical teaching; Church › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9780802847577, 9781573831765, 0802847579, 157383176X
- Resource ID: LLS:LSTNNGSPRTTXT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:22:01Z
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?
