Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
"In Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, Pentecostal
scholar Gordon Fee has redefined the terms of the discussion about
the Holy Spirit in a way that transcends today's paradigm of
'charismatic' or 'noncharismatic' orientation. His words are a
strong reminder of what God, through his Holy Spirit, intends the
church to be. . . . His work is an attempt to point us back to the
Bible and reinvigorate our own vision of how the Spirit mobilizes
the community of believers in the local church."--Wendy Murray,
author; former senior writer, Christianity Today
"Gordon Fee, one of our truly master exegetes, has put steel and
sinew into the words Spirit, spirit, and spiritual--words that have
become flabby through subjectivizing indulgence and lack of
exegetical exercise. 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. For those of us who want
to live in continuity with all that has been revealed in Jesus and
given in the Spirit, this is an eminently practical book."--Eugene
H. Peterson, professor emeritus of spiritual theology, Regent
College
"Gordon Fee is one of the finest Bible expositors I have known.
Whenever he speaks and writes, I listen, and recommend you do the
same."--Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries
Top Highlights
“For him life in the Spirit meant embracing both fruit and gifts simultaneously and vigorously—what I have come to call life in the radical middle. The Spirit as an experienced and empowering reality was for Paul and his churches the key player in all of Christian life, from beginning to end. The Spirit covered the whole waterfront: power for life, growth, fruit, gifts, prayer, witness, and everything else.” (source)
“In sum: For Paul, the Spirit is not merely an impersonal force or influence or power. The Spirit is none other than the fulfillment of the promise that God himself would once again be present with his people.” (source)
“But in fact Paul did not know he was contributing to such a ‘new testament.’ For him the ‘new covenant’ was not a written record at all but a historical reality, experienced anew at the Table of the Lord and realized on an everyday basis through the presence of the Spirit.” (source)
“The local church is God’s temple in the community where it is placed; and it is so by the presence of the Spirit alone, by whom God has now revisited his people.” (source)
“2. This ‘new spirit’ is none other than God’s Spirit, who will enable God’s people to follow his decrees (Ezek 36:27).” (source)
- Title: Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
- Author: Gordon Fee
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Holy Spirit › Biblical teaching; Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology
- ISBNs: 9781441232786, 9780801046247, 1441256121, 0801046246, 1441232788, 9781441256126
- Resource ID: LLS:PLSPRTPPLGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-09T14:32:28Z
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?
