To What End Exegesis

To What End Exegesis
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To What End Exegesis: Essays Textual, Exegetical, and Theological

Description of To What End Exegesis:

Over the years Gordon Fee has provided the scholarly community with a steady stream of books and articles addressing thorny text-critical issues, delicate exegetical concerns, and profound theological matters. Many of the articles that he has written have furthered the cause of New Testament studies and are now available in this fine collection. To What End Exegesis? amply demonstrates Fee's mastery of the exegetical task and illustrates the goal of exegesis in the service of both academy and church. Fee explores a wide range of concerns for readers and interpreters of the New Testament, including Paul as an early trinitarian thinker, freedom and obedience according to Paul, food offered to idols in 1 Corinthians, Pauline christology and pneumatology, and much more. Certain to be consulted and read frequently, To What End Exegesis? will provide teachers, pastors, and serious students of the Bible with a robust banquet of New Testament scholarship.

Information on To What End Exegesis from the publisher:

Over the past twenty-five years Gordon D. Fee has produced a steady stream of articles and academic papers addressing thorny text-critical issues, delicate exegetical concerns, and profound theological matters. Many of these scholarly pieces have made significant contributions to the field of New Testament studies, but they have been scattered in a wide range of publications. Now, in this book, twenty-one of Fee's finest shorter works are conveniently available together in a single volume.In many ways this collection reflects Fee's own journey as a biblical scholar. The volume begins with Fee's early work in textual criticism, turns to studies more strictly exegetical in nature, and concludes with studies more theological in intent. In the course of these studies Fee explores a wide range of concerns for readers and interpreters of the New Testament, including Paul as an early trinitarian thinker, freedom and obedience according to Paul, New Testament christology and pneumatology, and much more. These fine studies amply demonstrate Fee's mastery of the exegetical task and illustrate the goal of exegesis in the service of the Christian community. Certain to be consulted and read frequently, To What End Exegesis? will provide teachers, pastors, and serious students of the Bible with a robust banquet of New Testament scholarship.

Description of Gordon D. Fee, author of To What End Exegesis:

It's like enrolling at Regent College to study with master exegete Fee, but you don't have to travel to British Columbia to benefit from his insightful teaching- it's assembled in this outstanding collection! Articles include "Freedom and the life of Obedience" (Galatians 5:1-6:8); "Toward a Theology of 1 Corinthians"; "Wisdom Christology in Paul?"; and more. 416 pages, softcover from Eerdmans. This volume contains: twenty-one of Fee's finest shorter works are conveniently available together in a single volume volume begins with Fee's early work in textual criticism, turns to studies more strictly exegetical in nature, and concludes with studies more theological in intent Fee explores a wide range of concerns for readers and interpreters of the New Testament, including: Paul as an early trinitarian thinker freedom and obedience according to Paul New Testament christology and pneumatology To What End Exegesis? will provide teachers, pastors, and serious students of the Bible with a robust banquet of New Testament scholarship.