Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

(1926); ‘The Significance of the Historical Jesus
for the Theology of Paul’ (1929): The Church ...
could not possibly have taken for granted the loyal
adherence to the [Mosaic] Law and defended it
against Paul, if Jesus had combated the authority
of the Law. Jesus did not attack the Law, but
assumed its authority and interpreted it... It was
some time after his death when Paul and other
Hellenistic missionaries preached to the Gentiles a
gospel apart from the Law.... Jesus desires no ...
sexual asceticism. The ideal of celibacy indeed
entered Christianity early; we find it already in the
churches of Paul. But it is entirely foreign to Jesus.
|| It is most obvious that [Paul] does not appeal to
the words of the Lord in support of his strictly
theological, anthropological and soteriological
views.... When the essentially Pauline conceptions
are considered, it is clear that there Paul is not
dependent on Jesus. Jesus' teaching is— to all
intents and purposes— irrelevant for Paul.
Franz Kafka, The Castle (1926): Barnabas is
certainly not an official, not even one in the lowest
category.... One shouldn't suddenly send an
inexperienced youngster like Barnabas ... into the
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