Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Characteristics of
the Present Age (1806): [The] Christian System ...
[is] a degenerate form of Christianity, and the
authorship of which ... [must be] ascribed to the
Apostle Paul.
Thomas Jefferson, ‘Letter to William
Short’ (1820): Paul was the ... first corrupter of the
doctrines of Jesus.
Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul But Jesus (1823):
It rests with every professor of the religion of
Jesus to settle with himself, to which of the two
religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will
adhere.
Ferdinand Christian Baur, ‘The Christ Party
in the Corinthian Church, the Opposition between
Petrine and Pauline Christianity in the Ancient
Church, and the Apostle Peter in Rome’ (1831);
The Church History of the First Three Centuries
(1853): What kind of authority can there be for an
‘Apostle’ who, unlike the other Apostles, had never
been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus'
own school but had only later dared to claim the
Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority?
|| The only question comes to be how the Apostle
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