Paul, The Spirit and The People of God
By Gordon Fee
Hodder & Stoughton. 207 pages. £7.99
ISBN 0 340 69425 4
Anyone who has looked at the bulk (not to mention the price) of Gordon Fee's major work on the Holy Spirit, God's Empowering Presence but balked at both can breathe a sigh of relief with the appearance of this more manageable volume.
Fee's prefatory remarks express his desire to present the material covered in the larger tome at a more accessible level and with emphasis on what he perceives as the 'urgencies' arising from Paul's theology as it impinges upon the church in the Western world today. These he outlines in seven paragraphs, covering the ineffectiveness and perceived irrelevance of the church, the fruit/gifts dichotomy in some evangelical theology, the eschatological nature of the Spirit in the New Testament, the corporate character of life in the church and in the Spirit and the role of the Spirit in the worship of the people of God.
