Las Epistolas a los Tesalonicenses

Wanamaker no ignora los tratos tradicionales de la critica historica, lingistica, literaria y teologica de la escritura de un comentario de esta naturaleza. Es mas, en determinados momentos presenta una contribucion significativa a las cuestiones pertinentes a la exegesis tradicional. Sin embargo, el autor nos lleva mas alla de escritos previos sobre la correspondencia tesalonica al tomar en cuenta seriamente las dimensiones sociales tanto del cristianismo en Tesalonica como del texto de ambas cartas.

Al combinar los metodos exegeticos tradicionales con este nuevo acercamiento, Wanamaker busca entender el cristianismo paulino en Tesalonica como un movimiento socio-religioso en el primer siglo del mundo greco-romano, e intenta comprender el caracter social y la funcion de las cartas de Pablo dentro de ese contexto.

In this innovative commentary Charles A. Wanamaker incorporates what may he called a social science approach to the study of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, taking into full account the social context that gave rise to Paul's correspondence.

While Wanamaker in no way ignores traditional historical-critical, linguistic, literary, and theological approaches to writing a commentaryin fact, at several points he makes a significant contribution to the questions raised by traditional exegesisat the same time he goes beyond previous commentaries on the Thessalonian correspondence by taking seriously the social dimensions both of Christianity at Thessalonica and of the texts of 1 and 2 Thessalonians themselves.

In blending traditional exegetical methods with this newer approach, Wanamaker seeks to understand Pauline Christianity at Thessalonica as a socio-religious movement in the first-century Greco-Roman world and attempts to grasp the social character and functions of Paul's letters within this context.

A significant and original addition to the literature on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, this commentary will be valuable to scholars, pastors, and students alike.