Godon Fee's "God's Empowering Presence" please!

Let me bump this up. It's a really vital, influential work that we need to have in Logos. His Pauline Christology would also be very useful.

Mark Barnes said:

It's a really vital, influential work that we need to have in Logos. His Pauline Christology would also be very useful.

I have hardcopies of both and agree that they are indispensable. It would be fantastic to have them in Logos.

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Dan DeVilder said:

that'd be fun, Floyd, but I am referring to Michigan.  Sorry! 

That to far a commute - with three (catholic, liberal, and conservative Arminian) seminaries in the vicinity, I thought that there was a possibility.  Thanks for the note.

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Rosie Perera said:

I have a subconscious reflex in my mouse finger to click on anything by former professors of mine!

What classes did you have under him?  I never had that opportunity, but a "local" college (Rochester) had him as the key note lecturer on a 2-3 day series on 1 Corinthians.  I think I have 3 or 4 recorded lectures from him.

I took the New Testament half of Biblical Exegesis (co-taught with Bruce Waltke who did the OT half), the New Testament half of Biblical Theology (also with Waltke), and Revelation. His Revelation commentary is now at the publishers. I can't wait to see it! I loved the way he used to open each class session of Revelation with having us all (80-100+) sing a hymn or praise song whose text was from the book of Revelation. He had a whole collection of them, and would project the music on the screen while a volunteer from the class played the piano. It was an awesome way to begin our study each week.

Bohuslav Wojnar said:

Back to Gordon Fee, I respect him as one of the best NT scholars of our days. And, as Rosie once said, he is a passionate Christian. Give us more man of this caliber. Let God bless him.

He grew up in the Pentecostal church where the life of the mind was discouraged. Nobody in his church had ever gone on to graduate studies, and even college (other than a Bible institute) was suspect. He felt a strong inner desire to go further in his academic studies, and had the aptitude for it. But he wrestled with whether that was a godly thing to do. He would hear the pull from the other side saying he shouldn't. For example some very strongly worded letter to the editor in a denominational magazine criticising scholars for being cold as ice in their spiritual lives and saying something like "I'd rather be on fire for God and stupid than a brilliant scholar on ice." Gordon heard a word from God, though, that it wasn't mutually exclusive. He could be both, and in fact that's what he was being called to. The Christian world is so blessed that he heard that call and followed through with it. And indeed I've never seen such passion in a man of God. He would raise the roof with his voice, he'd get so excited about what he was teaching. We used to joke that you could take a Gordon Fee class for free by just sitting out in the atrium, because his voice would carry through the walls.

Bohuslav Wojnar said:

I do not want to start discussion on the matter however because it would get us out of the forum purpose.

Yes, good point. I didn't mean to denigrate any of our brothers and sisters who share Gordon Fee's denominational background but might not agree with where he went with it. I actually reined myself in on another quality of Gordon Fee that I was going to praise him for because I know it isn't universally supported. But that book recommended above that he edited has something to do with it....

xculture1@yahoo.com said:

  here is a Fee edited work in logos: http://www.logos.com/products/details/2959

I bought it too.

I've been studying some works on the HS and I'm just going to buy the Empowering Presence book from A**zon . Thanks for these ideas.