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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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Christ the Atoner. || What Luther failed to realize is<br />

that the true situation is that the Apostle [Paul] has<br />

already degenerated by comparison with the<br />

Gospel. || It becomes the disciple who decides<br />

what Christianity is, not the master, not Christ but<br />

Paul,... [who] threw Christianity away completely,<br />

turning it upside down, getting it to be just the<br />

opposite <strong>of</strong> what it is in the [original] Christian<br />

proclamation.<br />

Benjamin Jowett, <strong>The</strong> Epistles <strong>of</strong> St Paul to<br />

the <strong>The</strong>ssalonians, Galatians and Romans (1855):<br />

Our conception <strong>of</strong> the Apostolical age is<br />

necessarily based on the Acts <strong>of</strong> the Apostles and<br />

the Epistles <strong>of</strong> St Paul. It is in vain to search<br />

ecclesiastical writings for further information....<br />

Confining ourselves, then, to the original sources,<br />

we cannot but be struck by the fact, that <strong>of</strong> the first<br />

eighteen years after the day <strong>of</strong> Pentecost, hardly<br />

any account is preserved to us.... It seems as if we<br />

had already reached the second stage in the<br />

history <strong>of</strong> the Apostolic Church, without any<br />

precise knowledge <strong>of</strong> the first<br />

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1857): <strong>The</strong>re<br />

was the dreary Sunday <strong>of</strong> his childhood, when he<br />

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