in the idea of brother is ultimately a necessary linguistic side effect of this struggle for a concrete historical separating out of the Christian. “Brother”, for Paul, is the natural name of one’s Christian fellow believer, and we find it in a great many texts.14 The word pseudadelphos (“false brother”) is actually a word coined by Paul in which he expresses the sad experience of his missionary work and sets the limits of Christian brotherhood.15 We shall not find a developed theory of Christian