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The Natural Supernatural
To Paul and the early church, religious experiences were commonplace.
An interview with Gordon Fee | posted 7/01/1995 12:00AM
Would Paul be a leader in the current signs-and-wonders movement? In some ways, yes, says Gordon Fee, professor of New Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. In his recent book, God’s Empowering Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul (Hendrickson, 1994), he argues that the Holy Spirit is the key to Paul’s life and thought. Christian History talked with Fee about the role spiritual experience played in the church of Paul’s day.Christian History: Many Christians don’t naturally think of Paul as someone who had a regular and active “Spirit-life.” Why is that? Gordon Fee: By and large, Protestants think theologically, and then almost completely in terms of soteriology—what does it mean to be saved? We’ve read Paul through the lens of his letters to Galatia and Rome, where the issue was justification by faith. We’ve read these texts so often we tend to understand Paul only as a theologian. But Paul was a person of prayer before he was a theologian. His desire was not to be a precise theologian but to know Christ personally. That was the passion ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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