Gordon Fee
Gordon Fee | |
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Born | Gordon Donald Fee May 23, 1934 Ashland, Oregon, U.S. |
Died | October 25, 2022 New York City, U.S. | (aged 88)
Nationality | American-Canadian |
Occupation | Christian theologian |
Known for | Pneumatology and textual criticism of the New Testament |
Parent(s) | Donald Horace Fee and Gracy Irene Jacobson |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Southern California Seattle Pacific University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | New Testament studies |
Notable works |
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Notable ideas | Western text-type in sections of Gospel of John |
Gordon Donald Fee (May 23, 1934 – October 25, 2022) was an American-Canadian
Biography
Fee was born in 1934 in
Fee was considered a leading expert in
Fee was a member of the CBT (Committee on Bible Translation) that translated the New International Version (NIV) and its revision, the Today's New International Version (TNIV).[6] He also served on the advisory board of the International Institute for Christian Studies.[13]
He discovered that Codex Sinaiticus in Gospel of John 1:1–8:38 and in some other parts of this Gospel does not represent the Alexandrian text-type but the Western text-type.[14]
In 2012, Fee announced that he was retiring as general editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series due to the fact that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.[15] He died on October 25, 2022, at his home in New York City, aged 88.[8][16]
Views
Christian egalitarianism
Fee was a
Pentecostal distinctives
Fee was a Pentecostal; nevertheless, he disagreed with some long held and deeply cherished Pentecostal beliefs. Specifically, he questioned article 7 of the
On the other hand, he maintained that "the Pentecostal experience itself can be defended on exegetical grounds as a thoroughly biblical phenomenon".[19] Fee believed that in the early church, the Pentecostal experience was an expected part of conversion:
The crucial item in all this for the early church was the work of the Spirit; and [the empowerment for life], the dynamic empowering dimension with gifts, miracles, and evangelism (along with fruit and growth), was a normal part of their expectation and experience.[20]
Fee believed the Spirit's empowerment is a necessary element in the life of the Church that has too often been neglected.[21] It is this neglect, Fee argued, that led early Pentecostals to seek the presence and power of the Spirit in experiences which they identified as baptism in the Holy Spirit.[22]
Opposition to prosperity theology
Fee was a strong opponent of the
Works
Books
- Fee, Gordon D. (1981). How to Read the Bible for all its Worth. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. OCLC 8113186.
- ——— (1984). 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus. A Good News Commentary. San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-062338-1.
- ——— (1987). The First Epistle to the Corinthians. ISBN 978-0-8028-2507-0.
- ——— (1988). 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus. New International Biblical Commentary. Vol. 13. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. OCLC 19783316.
- ——— (1991). Gospel and Spirit: issues in New Testament hermeneutics. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. OCLC 24380526.
- ——— (1994). God's Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. OCLC 29358996.
- ——— (1995). Paul's Letter to the Philippians. NICNT. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 32465463.
- ———; OCLC 48428856.
- ———; OCLC 56085678.
- ——— (2006). The Disease of the Health & Wealth Gospels. Vancouver, Canada: Regent College Pub. ISBN 9781573830669.
- ——— (2007). Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. OCLC 71266373.
- ——— (2009). The First and Second Letter to the Thessalonians. NICNT. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. OCLC 317118158.
- ——— (2011). Revelation: A New Covenant Commentary. New Covenant Commentary Series. Vol. 18. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. OCLC 671260665.
- ——— (2018). Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle: A Concise Introduction. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0801049828.
As editor
- ———; OCLC 5800094.
Articles
- ——— (October 1982). "On the Inauthenticity of John 5:3b-4". .
- ——— (1988). "To What End Exegesis? Reflections on Exegesis and Spirituality in Philippians 4:10-20" (PDF). Bulletin for Biblical Research. 8: 75–88.
- ——— (1992). "Philippians 2:5–11: Hymn or Exalted Pauline Prose?". JSTOR 26422113.
References
- ^ Gordon Fee online, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ISBN 9780310515159.
- ^ WorldCat.org website. USC Libraries[permanent dead link] Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ "About Gordon Fee – author bio and information". christianbook.com. August 2008. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
- ^ Christianbook.com, Meet Gordon Fee, August 2008, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Committee on Bible Translation, Gordon Fee Biography, accessed June 4, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110705021420/http://www.niv-cbt.org/translators/dr-gordon-fee/ Archived from the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 9780310373612.
- ^ a b c d Thom, Mike (October 26, 2022). "Beloved American-Canadian theologian Gordon Fee dies at 88". CHVN-FM. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ISBN 9780310211181.
- ISBN 9780310278764.
- ISBN 9780802825070.
- ^ "Remembering Dr. Gordon D. Fee". Regent College. October 26, 2022. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- ^ International Institute for Christian Studies, Board of Advisors Archived October 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ^ Gordon D. Fee, Codex Sinaiticus in the Gospel of John: A Contribution to Methodology in Establishing Textual Relationships, Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Textual Criticism, Wm. Eerdmans Publishing 1993, pp. 221–243.
- ^ Fee, G. D. (2012). Editor's Preface. In The Epistle to the Hebrews (p. xii). Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
- Charisma News. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- ^ Christians for Biblical Equality, Leadership Archived July 1, 2014, at the Wayback Machine and Our Mission and History Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ^ Gordon D Fee. "Baptism in the Holy Spirit: The Issue of Separability and Subsequence," Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 7:2 (Fall 1985), p. 88.
- ^ Fee (1985), "Baptism in the Holy Spirit", 91.
- ^ Fee (1985), "Baptism in the Holy Spirit", 97.
- ^ Fee (1985), "Baptism in the Holy Spirit", 95–96.
- ^ Fee (1985), "Baptism in the Holy Spirit", 98.
- ISBN 1-57383-066-6.