Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Castle, and then expect a truthful account of
everything from him, interpret each single word of
his as if it were a revelation, and base one's own
life's happiness on the interpretation. Nothing
could be more mistaken.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu
(1927): The mystical Christ, the universal Christ of
St Paul, has neither meaning nor value in our eyes
except as an expansion of the Christ who was
born of Mary and who died on the cross. The
former essentially draws his fundamental quality of
undeniability and concreteness from the latter.
However far we may be drawn into the divine
spaces opened up to us by Christian mysticism,
we never depart from the Jesus of the gospels.
José Carlos Mariátegui, Seven Interpretive
Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928): The
missionaries did not impose the Gospel; they
imposed the cult, the liturgy.... The Roman Church
can consider itself the legitimate heir of the Roman
Empire.... This compromise in its origin extends
from Catholicism to all Christendom.
Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Discussion on Fellowship’,
Young India (1928): I draw a great distinction
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