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How often do you hear \u201cPeter\u201d in church vs. \u201cPaul\u201d? <\/strong><\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>Instead, Hengel, with his famous German critical method (redating, revising, etc), sees Peter as the primary leader of the Church of the earliest days and the formulator of the apostolic kerygma. He was a mission strategist as well. Yes, the major apostolic witness was three-fold: Peter, Paul and John. But this book undermines old Protestant nervousness, cuts into the grain of Catholic theology (by critiquing 2d Century Encratite stuff that dissolved the early apostolic family orientation, which means Peter was married), and sets all things on a historical-critical basis.<\/p>\n

Some of the conclusions, stated baldly: Matthew 16\u2019s famous \u201cYou are Peter \u2026\u201d statement is shaped in the later Matthean community; Mark emerges from Peter; Matthew and Luke use Mark because it was Petrine; Peter is not the author of 1 or 2 Peter. There were conflicts between Peter and Paul, but not insurmountable and there are signs of reconciliation between the two, but in some of these sections in Hengel\u2019s new book there are enough hints of the old Tubingen school that I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be seeing more Peter vs. Paul studies arising. But Peter emerges from the Synoptic Gospels as the mediator of the Mediator, as the authoritative disciple.<\/p>\n

Hengel\u2019s style could be called Teutonic and often enough he just declares his point of view as if it should be believed because he said it. Listen to this one about the rise in scholarship of connecting the word \u201cgospel\u201d to the Caesar cult: \u201cIt is absurd to continue to suggest, as happens again and again, that one should derive these forms of speech [the word \u201cgospel\u201d] from the cult of the Caesar\u201d (88 n. 302). Hear, hear!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"