Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Bruce Vawter, The Four Gospels (1967): We
have no authentic information about the activity of
most of the Twelve after the first days of the
Church in Jerusalem, but it is likely enough that
they remained identified with Jewish Christianity,
particularly, perhaps, with the Galilean Christianity
about which we know practically nothing.... This
Christianity ... all but disappeared.
Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought
(1968): The [Mosaic] law was not evaluated in the
negative way in which we usually do it; for the
Jews it was a gift and a joy.... The way of
despair ... was the way of people like Paul,
Augustine, and Luther.... Paul's conflict with the
Jewish Christians did not have to be continued.
Instead of that, the positive elements in the faith,
which could provide an understandable content for
the pagans, had to be brought out.
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God:
Creative Mythology (1968): The reign in Europe of
that order of unreason, unreasoning submission to
the dicta of authority:... Saint Paul himself had
opened the door to such impudent idiocies.
Günther Bornkamm, Paul (1969): Above all
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