Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

problem of Paulinism belong ... questions which
have not yet found a solution:... the relation of the
Apostle to the historical Jesus ... and towards the
[Mosaic] Law.... He does not appeal to the Master
even where it might seem inevitable to do so.... It
is as though he held that between the present
world-period and that in which Jesus lived and
taught there exists no link of connection.... What
Jesus thought about the matter is ... indifferent to
him.... Critics [have] demanded of theology proof
that the canonical Paul and his Epistles belonged
to early Christianity; and the demand was justified.
|| The rapid diffusion of Paul's ideas can be
attributed to his belief that the death of Christ
signified the end of the [Mosaic] Law. In the course
of one or two generations this concept became the
common property of the Christian faith, although it
stood in contradiction to the tradition teaching
represented by the Apostles at Jerusalem. || What
is the significance for our faith and for our religious
life, of the fact that the Gospel of Paul is different
from the Gospel of Jesus?... The attitude which
Paul himself takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus
is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus,
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