19 Facts About Gordon Fee

Gordon Donald Fee was an American-Canadian Christian theologian who was an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God.

Gordon Fee was professor of New Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Gordon Fee's father was an Assemblies of God minister who pastored several churches in Washington state.

Gordon Fee received his BA and MA degrees from Seattle Pacific University and his PhD from the University of Southern California where he wrote his dissertation on the Papyrus 66.

Gordon Fee then moved to Regent College where he was Professor of New Testament until his retirement in 2009.

Gordon Fee was considered a leading expert in pneumatology and textual criticism of the New Testament.

Gordon Fee was the author of books on biblical exegesis, including the popular introductory work How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, the "sequel," How to Read the Bible, Book by Book, How to Choose a Translation for all its Worth, and a major commentary on 1 Corinthians, as well as numerous other commentaries on various books in the New Testament.

Gordon Fee was a member of the CBT that translated the New International Version and its revision, the Today's New International Version.

Gordon Fee served on the advisory board of the International Institute for Christian Studies.

In 2012, Gordon 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.

Gordon Fee died on October 25,2022, at his home in New York City, aged 88.

Gordon Fee was a Christian egalitarian and was a contributing editor to the key Christian egalitarian book Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity without hierarchy.

Gordon Fee's above mentioned commentary consistently translates the generic "men" as "men and women" with an explanatory footnote.

Gordon Fee was a member of the board of reference for Christians for Biblical Equality, a group of Evangelical Christians who believe the Bible teaches complete equality between men and women and that all Christians, regardless of gender "must exercise their God-given gifts with equal authority and equal responsibility in church, home and world".

Gordon Fee was a Pentecostal; nevertheless, he disagreed with some long held and deeply cherished Pentecostal beliefs.

In "Baptism in the Holy Spirit: The Issue of Separability and Subsequence", Gordon Fee writes that there is little biblical evidence to prove the traditional Pentecostal doctrinal position.

Gordon Fee believed that in the early church, the Pentecostal experience was an expected part of conversion:.

Gordon Fee believed the Spirit's empowerment is a necessary element in the life of the Church that has too often been neglected.

Gordon Fee was a strong opponent of the prosperity gospel and published a 1985 book entitled The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels.