Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle

"Gordon Fee is among the most respected New Testament scholars of our time. With this focus on Jesus as Lord he offers the church a practical, compelling, and even eye-opening demonstration of Paul's high Christology. He gives sound treatment of crucial texts and of the relation of the Father, Son, and Spirit in Paul's letters. This book deserves your attention."

"Exegetically grounded and theologically synthetic, academic and devotionally reverent, grounded in research but practical and simple to follow, Fee's Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle makes the fruits of his years of careful work on Paul's letters and Christology more widely available. Intertextually rich and theologically provocative, this book invites us to rethink traditional academic constructions of Paul's theology in light of the primary data provided rather conspicuously by Paul's own letters."

"In Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle, Gordon Fee distills his lifetime of careful exegesis and sensitive theological reflection (not to mention the substance of his Pauline Christology) to provide a wide readership with a clear, concise, and engaging summary of Paul's understanding of Christ. In the process, he demonstrates how paying careful attention to the scriptural backgrounds of Paul's statements about Jesus provides key insights for understanding Paul's Christology. This book would serve perfectly as a textbook for undergraduate or seminary courses on Pauline theology or Christology."

"I cut my intellectual teeth on Gordon Fee's 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."

"An accessible, clear, and concise edition of Fee's much larger Pauline Christology. This book represents the rich harvest of long years in Paul by a seasoned scholar who unashamedly shares the Apostle's profound love for and devotion to the Lord Jesus."

"All of Gordon Fee's students, colleagues, friends, and family know his heart and tears. His profound love for Jesus overflows in lectures, conversations, prayers--and in this book. Fee also writes with love for his friend Paul and presents the Apostle's devotion to Christ with crisp clarity and accessible language. Jesus the Lord according to Paul the Apostle is likely Gordon's 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."

"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 Fee's learning is still evident in this edition, but here is a four-part synthesis of the most important and constructive themes of Paul's witness to the risen Christ. Especially important is Fee's well-regarded defense of Paul's incarnational Christology and its strategic role in his messianic conception of God's salvation. Readers of Scripture will appreciate Fee's discussion of Paul's running dialogue with his Bible, the Greek translation of the synagogue's Hebrew Scripture, to lend biblical support to his core theological claim that Messiah Jesus is God's Son. Fee records Paul's dynamic struggle of relating his new belief in a divine Jesus to his own Judaism's monotheism. An excellent resource for the seminary classroom and parish library."