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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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the life and preaching <strong>of</strong> the Lord.... This treasure<br />

lies hidden in the synoptic gospels.<br />

Herbert A.L. Fisher, A History <strong>of</strong> Europe<br />

(1935): Paul <strong>of</strong> Tarsus ... drew a clear line <strong>of</strong><br />

division between [the] two sects.... Christian and<br />

Jew sprang apart.<br />

Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936): That<br />

maniac St Paul.<br />

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value<br />

(1980, notes from 1937): <strong>The</strong> spring which flows<br />

gently and limpidly in the <strong>Gospels</strong> seems to have<br />

froth on it in Paul's Epistles.... To me it's as though<br />

I saw human passion here, something like pride or<br />

anger, which is not in tune with the humility <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>Gospels</strong>.... I want to ask— and may this be no<br />

blasphemy— ‘What might Christ have said to<br />

Paul?’... In the <strong>Gospels</strong>— as it seems to me—<br />

everything is less pretentious, humbler, simpler.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re you find huts; in Paul a church. <strong>The</strong>re all<br />

men are equal and God himself is a man; in Paul<br />

there is already something like a hierarchy.<br />

Kenneth Patchen, <strong>The</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Albion<br />

Moonlight (1941): We were proceeding leisurely<br />

down the main street in St Paul when suddenly,<br />

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