Gordon D. Fee - Jesus the Lord According to Paul the Apostle: A Concise Introduction

All of Gordon Fees students, colleagues, friends, and family know his heart and tears. His profound love for Jesus overflows in lectures, conversations, prayersand in this book. Fee also writes with love for his friend Paul and presents the Apostles devotion to Christ with crisp clarity and accessible language. Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle is likely Gordons last work, written for the church and students he loved. Read the words, know the heart, and come to love Jesus Christ with wonder and joy.

Gene L. Green , Wheaton College and Graduate School

One of the signal biblical scholars of our day, Gordon Fee has scaled down his magisterial Pauline Christology into a more modest size to be accessible to serious students and busy clergy. The immense scope of Fees learning is still evident in this edition, but here is a four-part synthesis of the most important and constructive themes of Pauls witness to the risen Christ. Especially important is Fees well-regarded defense of Pauls incarnational Christology and its strategic role in his messianic conception of Gods salvation. Readers of Scripture will appreciate Fees discussion of Pauls running dialogue with his Bible, the Greek translation of the synagogues Hebrew Scripture, to lend biblical support to his core theological claim that Messiah Jesus is Gods Son. Fee records Pauls dynamic struggle of relating his new belief in a divine Jesus to his own Judaisms monotheism. An excellent resource for the seminary classroom and parish library.

Robert W. Wall , Seattle Pacific University and Seminary

I cut my intellectual teeth on Gordon Fees 1 Corinthians commentary as an undergraduate student. Again and again his academic insight astounded me, and his pastoral wisdom and overt Pentecostal spirituality encouraged me. Almost twenty years later my respect for him has not diminished; I routinely check his works in my own research and teaching. So many of his areas of scholarly and practical passion combine in Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle , including his careful reading of texts, his emphasis on Christian behavior (as opposed to works), his interest in the Spirit, and his bridge work between biblical studies and systematic theology. This is a classic Fee feast. Chew on this. Chew well.

Holly Beers , Westmont College