Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

a gardener, or for a traveler to Emmaus; he eats;
his wounds can be touched.... Paul insists again
and again that, although he was not a disciple
during Jesus' lifetime, he did witness a genuine
appearance of the resurrected Christ But his
picture of a resurrection ‘body’ is a bright light, a
heavenly ‘body’ like a sun, star or planet, not like
an earthly body. So the book of Acts, while
recounting in detail Paul's encounter with Jesus as
a blinding light, presents it as if it were hardly more
than a ‘conversion’. For the author [of Acts] places
it well outside of the period of resurrection
appearances, which he had limited to forty days.
Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ (1977): There
is a difference between the theology of the early
Jewish Christian congregations in Jerusalem
which are oriented on Jesus of Nazareth, and
Pauline theology, which knows only ‘the crucified’.
Mircea Eliade, History of Beliefs and
Religious Ideas (1978): Paul would have to be
seen as fatally opposed to the Judeo-Christians of
Jerusalem, ... a conflict of which Paul and the Acts
(Gal 2:7-10, Acts 15:29) give contradictory
versions.
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