Why Foreign Missions? 20b. The Gospel According to Paul in the Corinthian Correspondence, Gordon Fee
Why Foreign Missions? 20b. The Gospel According to Paul in the Corinthian Correspondence, Gordon Fee The previous study offered two ways to explore the content of the Gospel in the early Church: by examining confessional formulae and the speeches of Acts. In this study, a third approach to identifying the Gospel will be presented through an essay by +Gordon D. Fee. [1] His method is to examine Paul’s correspondence with the Corinthian church. While his method again demonstrates that the Gospel is focussed on Jesus, it identifies several dimensions to the Gospel that expand points noted in the previous study. The Gospel has Content First, Fee points out that the Gospel has a content (pp. 112f). Existentialist eisegesis of the 20 th century attempted to argue that, originally, the Church spoke of the act of believing rather than what was to be believed. While such a distinction is surely ludicrous in its own right, one might, nevertheless, point out that Paul does indee