Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Martin Buber, ‘The Holy Way’ (1918); Two
Types of Faith (1948): The man who, in
transmitting Judaism to the peoples, brought about
its breakup,... this violator of the spirit,... [was]
Saul, the man from Tarsus.... He transmitted
Jesus' teaching ... to the nations, handing them
the sweet poison of faith, a faith that was to
disdain works, exempt the faithful from realization,
and establish dualism in the [Christian] world. It is
the Pauline era whose death agonies we today [in
World War I] are watching with transfixed eyes. ||
Not merely the Old Testament belief and the living
faith of post-Biblical Judaism are opposed to Paul,
but also the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount....
One must see Jesus apart from his historical
connection with Christianity.... It is Peter [rather
than Paul] who represents the unforgettable
recollection of the conversations of Jesus with the
Disciples in Galilee.
Thomas Edward Lawrence, The Seven
Pillars of Wisdom (1919): Christianity was a
hybrid, except in its first root not essentially
Semitic.
Carl Gustav Jung, ‘The Psychological
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