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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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Christology— nothing whatever.... If we do not<br />

wish to deprive both figures <strong>of</strong> all historical<br />

distinctness, the name ‘disciple <strong>of</strong> Jesus’ has little<br />

applicability to Paul.... Jesus or Paul: this<br />

alternative characterizes, at least in part, the<br />

religious and theological warfare <strong>of</strong> the present<br />

day.<br />

Albert Schweitzer, <strong>The</strong> Quest for the<br />

Historical Jesus (1906); Paul and His Interpreters<br />

(1912); Out <strong>of</strong> My Life and Thought (1931); <strong>The</strong><br />

Mysticism <strong>of</strong> St Paul (1931): Paul ... did not desire<br />

to know Christ after the flesh.... Those who want to<br />

find a way from the preaching <strong>of</strong> Jesus to early<br />

Christianity are conscious <strong>of</strong> the peculiar<br />

difficulties raised.... Paul shows us with what<br />

complete indifference the earthly life <strong>of</strong> Jesus was<br />

regarded by primary Christianity. || <strong>The</strong> system <strong>of</strong><br />

the Apostle <strong>of</strong> the Gentiles stands over against the<br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> Jesus as something <strong>of</strong> an entirely<br />

different character, and does not create the<br />

impression <strong>of</strong> having arisen out <strong>of</strong> it.... It is<br />

impossible for a Hellenized Paulinism to subsist<br />

alongside <strong>of</strong> a primitive Christianity which shared<br />

the Jewish eschatological expectations.... To the<br />

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