Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

Church.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929): That Saint Paul.... He's the one
who makes all the trouble.
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism (Second Series, 1933): Te-
shan (780-865 [AD]) ... was very learned in the teaching of the sutra and was
extensively read in the commentaries.... He heard of this Zen teaching in the south
[of China], according to which a man could be a Buddha by immediately taking hold
of his inmost nature. This he thought could not be the Buddha's own teaching, but
[rather] the Evil-One's.... Te-shan's idea was to destroy Zen if possible.... [His]
psychology reminds us of that of St Paul.
Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (1934): As far as
Paul is concerned, in the Apocalypse [Rev/Ap 21:14] only the names of the twelve
apostles are found on the foundations of the New Jerusalem— there is no room for
Paul.... For Justin [Martyr in the mid-second century], everything is based on the
gospel tradition.... The name of Paul is nowhere mentioned by Justin;... not only is
his name lacking, but also any congruence with his epistles.... If one may be allowed
to speak rather pointedly, the apostle Paul was the only arch-heretic known to the
apostolic age.... We must look to the circle of the twelve apostles to find the
guardians of the most primitive information about the life and preaching of the
Lord.... This treasure lies hidden in the synoptic gospels.
Herbert A.L. Fisher, A History of Europe (1935): Paul of Tarsus ... drew a clear
line of division between [the] two sects.... Christian and Jew sprang apart.
Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936): That maniac St Paul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (1980, notes from 1937): The spring
which flows gently and limpidly in the Gospels seems to have froth on it in Paul's
Epistles.... To me it's as though I saw human passion here, something like pride or
anger, which is not in tune with the humility of the Gospels.... I want to ask— and
may this be no blasphemy— ‘What might Christ have said to Paul?’... In the Gospels
— as it seems to me— everything is less pretentious, humbler, simpler. There you
find huts; in Paul a church. There all men are equal and God himself is a man; in
Paul there is already something like a hierarchy.
Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941): We were proceeding
leisurely down the main street in St Paul when suddenly, without warning of any
kind, an immense octopus wrapped his arms around our car.
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