Commentary on the New Testament series due to the fact that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died on October 25, 2022, at his home in New York City, aged 88. Views Christian egalitarianism Fee was a Christian egalitarian and 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. He was also a member of the board of reference for Christians for Biblical Equality, a group of Evangelical Christians who believe the Bible teaches complete equality between men and women and that all Christians, regardless of gender "must exercise their God-given gifts with equal authority and equal responsibility in church, home and world". Pentecostal distinctives Fee was a Pentecostal; nevertheless, he disagreed with some long held and deeply cherished Pentecostal beliefs. Specifically, he questioned article 7 of the Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths, which articulates a classical Pentecostal understanding of baptism in the Holy Spirit as subsequent to and separate from Christian conversion. In "Baptism in the Holy Spirit: The Issue of Separability and Subsequence", Fee writes that there is little biblical evidence to prove the traditional Pentecostal doctrinal position. On the other hand, he maintained that "the Pentecostal experience itself can be defended on exegetical grounds as a thoroughly biblical phenomenon". Fee believed that in the early church, the Pentecostal experience was an expected part of conversion: Fee believed the Spirit's empowerment is a necessary element in the life of the Church that has too often been neglected. It is this neglect, Fee argued, that led early Pentecostals to seek the presence and power of the Spirit in experiences which they identified as baptism in the Holy Spirit. Opposition to prosperity theology Fee was a strong opponent of the prosperity gospel and published a 1985 book entitled The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels. Works Books As editor Articles References 1934 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Canadian Protestant theologians American emigrants to Canada American Pentecostal pastors Assemblies of God people Bible commentators Canadian Pentecostal pastors Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary faculty New Testament scholars Pentecostal theologians Pentecostal writers Regent College faculty Seattle Pacific University alumni University of Southern California alumni Wheaton College (Illinois) faculty Writers from Ashland, Oregon