Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1964):
The Christian community of Jerusalem ... did not
accept [Paul's] views on the [Mosaic] Law.
Helmut Koester, ‘The Theological Aspects of
Primitive Christian Heresy’, in James Robinson
(ed.), The Future of our Religious Past (1964);
Introduction to the New Testament (1980); Ancient
Christian Gospels (1990); with Stephen
Patterson, ‘The Gospel of Thomas: Does It
Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?’, Bible
Review (1990): Paul himself stands in the twilight
zone of heresy. || The content of Paul's speeches
in Acts cannot be harmonized with the theology of
Paul as we know it from his letters.... Neither is it
credible that he affirmed repeatedly in his trial that
he had always lived as a law- [i.e. Torah-]abiding
Jew.... From the beginning of Acts to the
martyrdom of Stephen, the central figure in the
narrative has been Peter. At this point, however,
Paul is introduced for the first time.... Peter is
always presented as an apostle, since he belongs
to the circle of the Twelve. But in Acts 15 Peter is
mentioned for the last time, and Luke has nothing
to report about his journey to Rome or his
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