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… The Wild Visionary at the Heart of Early Christianity | Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… there was no theology until Paul came along. (Most scholars agree that only six or seven of the thirteen letters attributed to Paul were actually his; the others were “school of Paul,” and they often work against the radical Paul, subverting his ideas to make the apostle seem more patriarchal and restrictive.)  In essence, Paul formulated the key ideas about Christianity that we now take for granted, and he did so on the fly, so to speak—in impromptu sermons and letters.