The Trinity in the earliest Christian writing: Trinitarians elements in the First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians

Abstract

The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians has as main point eschatology , the Parousia of the Lord . Paul to light the doubts of the community about the fate of the dead and the realization of the encounter with Christ , emphasizes some aspects of the Trinitarian preaching of the primitive Christian community , since all the work of salvation is Trinitarian . This article begins with an analysis of the terms innerenti to the three persons of the Holy Trinity in 1Ts to emphasize , as well , a global vision of the Trinity in the oldest Christian text , showing , also , an anthropological view of tripartite Paul at the end of the letter .