Be sure to catch this new interview with Dr. Gordon Fee. They spend some time discussing his new commentary on the book of Revelations.
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Thanks for posting this. I will listen to it tomorrow at work! That gives me something to look forward to.
Thanks for the heads up.
Jeff
The Book of What?!?!
Oh! I didn’t notice that. Robert, you have been caught referring to “Revelation” as “Revelations”.
Oh well, now you all know I’m not perfect, darn.
Robert! You’re not perfect? I am so confused.
Fear not Brian, your confusion is due to level 4 dreaming, you will soon awake and all will be normal again.
Level 4? That’s only been done once!
Man, that was just so good! I must purchase that commentary as soon as it comes out.
Meanwhile, it is obvious from this that Fee is no premillennialist, and much less a dispensationalist. I wonder how that works with the Assemblies of God, the denomination in which he is an ordained minister, since their Statement of Fundamental Truths explicitly teaches both the pretrib rapture and a literal millennium.
Esteban,
The AOG also has speaking in tongues as the initial physical evidence of the infilling of the Holy Spirit and Fee rejects that. Do we know if he is still AOG? Maybe it is one of those situations where it is just to hard to pull his license so they let him keep it even though he doesn’t affirm a few things.
Brian> True enough! But I think that, since he doesn’t reject the gift of tongues, his rejection of the classical Pentecostal doctrine of tongues as the initial physical evidence of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit might be easier to swallow in AoG circles than his wholesale rejection of pretribulational rapturism.
Anyway, I’m fairly sure he’s still an AoG minister. You may well be right about the circumstances of why that is still the case!
Well, eshcatology is less of a distinctive for the AG than tongues – so they kind of let that slide I think or they don’t push it.
But Fee doesn’t line up on tongues either so how does he get away with that?
I grew up a dispensationalist as well, but grew dissatisfied with it and abandoned all study of eschatology, including the reading of the book Revelation (did I get right?). This is of course one of the extremes that Fee mentions that one will take regarding this book. I can’t wait for the book to be released, I hope that he continues writing.
Thanks for the post. It’s good to know that Fee can still be AoG with his newfound revelations. With those views, hey, I can almost be AoG (if I was to ever get the boot by the Lutherans). I also grew up dispensationalist and got converted during my seminary days when I had to look at Revelation from a non-dispensational view.
Alas, I don’t think we’ll be seeing much more writing from Dr. Fee. I heard via the Gordon Fee Apprciation Society page on Facebook earlier this year that he has been diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. He has left Regent and he and his wife have moved back to New York to be near family that will assist in his care. Keep them in your prayers.
On this post you wrote…
“… Be sure to catch this new interview with Dr. Gordon Fee. They spend some time discussing his new commentary on the book of Revelations.”
How about… “the book of Revelation” instead of Revelations?
Everyone does it once and it’s been pointed out already (see James McGrath’s comment).
The last I heard, Fee is still an ordained AoG minister. However, I have heard that, in the past, an effort was made to pull his papers, but kicking out your brightest theologian isn’t always easy. I do know of other ministers who have lost their AoG papers due to theological views almost identical to Fee’s.