Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Jerusalem Church absolutely did not recognize as
an Apostle.
Irving Howe, World of our Fathers (1976):
The view that sexual activity is impure or at least
suspect, so often an accompaniment of
Christianity, was seldom entertained in the [east-
European Jewish] shtetl. Paul's remark that it is
better to marry than to burn would have seemed
strange, if not downright impious, to the Jews.
John Morris Roberts, History of the World
(1976): The reported devotional ideas of Jesus do
not go beyond the Jewish observances; service in
the Temple, together with private prayer, were all
that he indicated. In this very real sense, he lived
and died as a Jew.... Fulfillment of the [Mosaic]
Law was essential.... The doctrine that Paul taught
was new. He rejected the Law (as Jesus had
never done),... and this was to shatter the mould
of Jewish thought within which the faith had been
born.
James M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi
Codices (1977): The New Testament Gospels
present the resurrected Christ as having a body
that appears to be a human body— he is taken for
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