Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

understand Jesus at all. He wasn't even interested
in Jesus; just in his own idea of the Christ
Paulo Suess, ‘Acculturation’, in Ignacio
Ellacuría & Jon Sobrino (eds.), Mysterium
Liberationis (1991): The allegorical exegesis of
Philo (13 BC45/50 AD), Jewish philosopher and
theologian, is present in the writings of Paul,...
[who] was in many respects a figure atypical of the
primitive Church,... due to the transition from an
agrarian context— very much present in the
parables— to an urban world ... of the great cities.
Shlomo Riskin, The Jerusalem Post
International Edition (28 March 1992): Saul of
Tarsus ... broke from Jewish Law, and the religion
thereby created was soon encrusted with pagan
elements.
Holger Kersten & Elmar Gruber, The Jesus
Conspiracy (1992): Paul makes the whole purpose
of Jesus' activity rest exclusively in this dying on
the Cross. Here he has little interest in the words
and teachings of Jesus, but he makes everything
depend on his own teaching: the salvation from
sins by the vicarious sacrificial death of Jesus.
Does it not seem most strange that Jesus himself
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