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Gordon Donald Fee (born 1934) is a New Testament scholar who, after teaching briefly at Wheaton College in Illinois, and for several years at Vanguard University of Southern California, taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts until 1986. He then moved to Regent College in Vancouver, Canada where he is now Professor Emeritus. He also serves on the advisory board of the International Institute for Christian Studies.

Fee was born in 1934 in Ashland, Oregon, to Donald Horace Fee (1907-1999) and Gracy Irene Jacobson (1906-1973). He has one older sister, Donna Mae. His father was an Assemblies of God minister, who pastored several churches in Washington state. Fee received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Seattle Pacific University and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

Fee is one of the experts in pneumatology and also the textual criticism of the New Testament of the Bible. He is also the author of books on Biblical exegesis, including the popular introductory work How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (co-authored with Douglas Stuart), the "sequel," How to Read the Bible, Book by Book, How to Choose a Translation for all its Worth (co-authored with Mark L. Strauss) and a major commentary on 1 Corinthians as well as numerous other commentaries on various books in the New Testament. In the 1990s he succeeded F.F. Bruce to become the editor of the notable evangelical commentary series, the New International Commentary of the New Testament of which his commentary on 1 Corinthians is a part.

Gordon Fee discovered that Codex Sinaiticus in Gospel of John 1:1-8:38 and in some other parts of this Gospel does not represent the Alexandrian text-type but the Western text-type.

Fee is a member of the CBT (Committee on Bible Translation) that translated the New International Version (NIV) and its revision, the Today's New International Version (TNIV). He is also a member of the "board of reference" for "Christians for Biblical Equality," a group of Evangelical Christians that believes that the Bible advocates complete equality between men and women in both home and ministry. He was a contributing editor to the key Christian egalitarian book Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity without hierarchy (2004). His above mentioned commentary consistently translates the generic "men" as "men and women" with an explanatory footnote.

Fee is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God (AG) and unabashedly identifies himself as Pentecostal, even though he has written articles disagreeing with a few of the AG's fundamental Pentecostalism-specific doctrines. Fee is a strong opponent of the "prosperity gospel" (see his booklet entitled "The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels", Regent College Publishing, January 1, 1985, ISBN 1-57383-066-6).

On April 21, 2010, Fee was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington, where Fee has taught in the past and where a building is named for his father, Donald Fee.

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