Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Foundations of Belief in Spirits’ (1919); ‘A
Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the
Trinity’ (1940): Saul's ... fanatical resistance to
Christianity,... as we know from the Epistles, was
never entirely overcome. || It is frankly
disappointing to see how Paul hardly ever allows
the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.
Herbert George Wells, The Outline of History
(1920): St Paul and his successors added to or
completed or imposed upon or substituted another
doctrine for— as you may prefer to think— the
plain and profoundly revolutionary teachings of
Jesus, by expounding ... a salvation which could
be obtained very largely by belief and formalities,
without any serious disturbance of the believer's
ordinary habits and occupations.
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922): Peter and
Paul. More interesting if you understood what it
was all about.... Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Isaac Babel, ‘Sir Apolek’ (from The Red
Cavalry Stories, 1923): Saint Paul, a timorous
cripple with the shaggy black beard of a village
apostate.
Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus and the Word
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