6/28/2023 0 Comments Peter by Oscar Cullmann![]() Although Baur’s peers rejected his approach, he nevertheless succeeded in striking a blow against the traditional view. Hence Peter had been sidelined and there was no need for him to have been in Rome or to be seen as the leader of the church. Baur of Tübingen, applying a Hegelian model to his study of early Christianity, suggested that the book of Acts outlined a progressive process whereby Petrine Christianity was challenged and replaced by Pauline Christianity, from which Roman Christianity developed. In their view, “the silence of the Bible was quite decisive,” according to Oscar Cullmann in Peter: Disciple, Apostle, Martyr (1953, 1962).ĭuring the following centuries others launched sporadic challenges against the teaching of Peter having been in Rome, but no one mounted a major assault until the early 19 th century. The primacy of Rome and the Roman Catholic Church, based on the apostle Peter founding the church in the city and later being martyred and buried there, has certainly been challenged since medieval times.īack then, doubts may first have been expressed by the Waldensians, a sect out of conformity with the prevailing Roman orthodoxy. ![]()
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