Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Furnish, Victor Paul</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">3:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Abingdon Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>204tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Accepting the widespread view that 1 Thessalonians is the earliest surviving Pauline letter, Furnish commends reading it as fully as possible on its own terms, without presupposing or imposing themes or positions that are explicit only in letters of a later date. While he agrees with commentators who note this letter's pastoral aims and character, he is more convinced than some that it also exhibits a rich and coherent theological point of view. Furnish interprets 2 Thessalonians as the work of an anonymous Paulinist writing several decades after the apostle's death. He regards this letter, too, as historically and theologically valuable, although less for what it discloses about Paul's ministry and thought than for what it shows about the reception and interpretation of Paul in the late first-century church.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Victor Paul Furnish</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- New Testament -- Commentaries</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- NT -- Thessalonians -- Commentaries</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">225.7</classification> <classification authority="ddc">A149-C73</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780687057436</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12849/12.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12849/12.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071201.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>