Book Notices -- By: Anonymous

Journal: Reformation and Revival
Volume: RAR 09:4 (Fall 2000)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous


Book Notices

Listening To The Spirit Of The Text, Gordon D. Fee. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2000). 180 pages, paper, $12.00

Gordon Fee, a highly respected professor of New Testament studies at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, always seems to write of things that truly matter. In this extremely helpful exploration of New Testament themes he excels in showing the reader how the text of the Scripture is to be consistently linked with the life of both the Spirit and the Church. The idea he advances in these particular essays is that exegesis must never be severed, as discipline and practice, from life in the Holy Spirit.

Of the twelve essays in this volume only one appears in print for the first time—”The Holy Spirit and Worship in the Pauline Churches” (Chapter 8). The other essays are reprinted from various journals. The titles cover various areas of specific New Testament thought, such as: “Exegesis and Spirituality: Completing the Circle,” “On Being a Trinitarian Christian,” “The New Testament View of Wealth and Possessions,” “Gender Issues: Reflections on the Perspective of the Apostle Paul,” “Toward a Pauline Theology of Glossolalia,” and “The Kingdom of God and the Church’s Global Mission.” Gordon Fee is concerned not just with the academic. He loves the Church and believes in the Spirit’s

role in forming and giving life to the Church. His work is brilliant, but simple. Thoughtful pastors should read this helpful collection, even if they do not agree with everything Fee writes.

The Lord’s Supper Is A Celebration Of Grace, Gordon J. Keddie. Darlington, England: Evangelical Press (2000). 96 pages, paper, $8.99

Gordon Keddie, an American pastor in State College, Pennsylvania, is a clear and practical writer. I have often found his commentaries helpful for preaching work. This book is equally clear and helpful. The contents of this little book first appeared in the Evangelical Times, a British monthly. Far too many American evangelicals treat the Lord’s Supper as an “add on” to the regular services of the Church. It is a “necessity” of some sort, but we are not quite sure why. If you are a Gospel minister, Keddie will help you to think about making the sacred celebration of Christ’s death vital to the life of your congregation.

Seeking God: The Pathway Of True Spirituality, Richard Mayhue. Inverness, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications (2000). 317 pages, cloth, $19.99

Richard Mayhue, Dean of The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California, and the author of several previous books, has in this present...

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