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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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original choice, namely Matthias.<br />

Paula Fredriksen, From Jesus to Christ<br />

(1988): Scholars, their confusion facilitated by<br />

Paul's own apparent inconsistency,... do not agree<br />

even on what Paul said, much less why he said it.<br />

Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World (1991): Was<br />

Christ a Christian? That also can certainly be<br />

debated.<br />

Gerald Messadié, Saul the Incendiary (Paris<br />

1991): Saul does not really know the teaching <strong>of</strong><br />

Jesus. In the Epistles there are no traces <strong>of</strong> the<br />

parables, nor <strong>of</strong> the expressions and attitudes <strong>of</strong><br />

Jesus.... <strong>The</strong> transformation, the essential<br />

metanoia <strong>of</strong> the believer by ethical meditation, has<br />

almost no place in his writings.... Saul quickly<br />

arrogates to himself, and it seems incredible, the<br />

privilege <strong>of</strong> the truth. He, who only glimpsed<br />

Jesus, with unparalleled arrogance claims to be<br />

the only one who possesses the truth <strong>of</strong> the<br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> the Messiah— against those who, for<br />

their part, knew Jesus personally, against the first<br />

disciples. What insolence: he considers Peter a<br />

‘hypocrite’!... I asked myself if Saul wouldn’t have<br />

participated also in the plot <strong>of</strong> the Sanhedrin<br />

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