The Kingdom of God Is Among You: Lectures to My Students on New Testament Theology

by Gordon Fee; Cherith Fee Nordling

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2024

Overview

In this exciting volume, a renowned New Testament scholar provides his lectures on New Testament theology and provides us a window on his approach on a variety of issues. He describes the task as follows: “New Testament theology is the art of giving coherence to the collective witness of the twenty-seven New Testament documents as they attest to the Christian faith while not sacrificing the historical particularity of any one text or author within the canon, and to do this as clearly as possible and with as much consistency and unity as possible . . . New Testament theology deals with all the New Testament. We must resist the tendency to find a canon within the canon or to neglect some lesser figures in the New Testament canon . . . New Testament theology is first of all a descriptive task--i.e., we must first try to describe what is there. But given our stance toward Scripture, what we describe also becomes prescriptive or normative . . . We must never forget that the writings of the New Testament are ad hoc documents, written in each and every case to speak to a specific need. Thus, rather than careful, systematic presentations of theology (such as in a book or a lecture), the earliest Christian theology is worked out in the marketplace, as it were. Therefore, we must be careful not to force the New Testament writers to answer all of our questions, nor even to use our logic or thought forms.” (excerpted from chapter 1)

Key Features

• Provides his lectures on New Testament theology.
• Provides us a window on his approach on a variety of issues.
• States that we must be careful not to force the New Testament writers to answer all of our questions.

Praise for The Kingdom of God Is among You

In Gordon Fee’s posthumous The Kingdom of God Is among You, this veteran Pauline scholar, from whom I have learned so much, turns his attention to the coherency of the message of the sweep of the New Testament in a way that draws from the best of older scholarship, shifts the characteristic emphases of most NT theology with his charismatic themes, and outlines a theology that leads us to worship. This book, as was the life of Gordon Fee, is truly doxological.

—Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

In a time when global Pentecostalism is taken seriously both by the academy and the church, new generations need the wisdom of mentors like Gordon Fee. This collection of Fee’s lectures on New Testament theology frames him as a scholar of his time and a prophet for ours, demonstrating that the breath of the Spirit grounds and inspires though the winds of scholarship may blow and shift.

—Holly Beers, associate professor of religious studies, Westmont College

This New Testament theology captures the best of Gordon Fee: it is profound, pastoral, and passionate. Indeed, this is not only the voice of Fee—it is his true legacy.

—Mikael Tellbe, associate professor of New Testament studies, ALT School of Theology

Product Details

• Title: The Kingdom of God Is among You: Lectures to My Students on New Testament Theology
• Authors: Gordon Fee, Cherith Fee Nordling
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Pages: 360
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9781666732924, 1666732923
• Resource ID: LLS:KNGDMGDTSTMNTTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T20:57:15Z