Peter, Stephen, James, and John: Studies in Non-Pauline Diversity in the Early Church (Biblia.com)

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It is plain from Paul’s writings that presentations of the Christian message other than his own were current during his apostolic career. This concise and scholarly study describes four of the non-Pauline movements in the early church, each of which can be identified with a particular leader: Peter, acknowledged leader of the apostles; Stephen and the Hellenists (Jews who spoke Greek culturally...

With some of these other presentations he was quite happy; against others he found it necessary to put his readers on their guard. The writings of Paul are our earliest datable Christian documents. As such they supply our earliest source material for non-Pauline as well as for Pauline Christianity. If that means that we have to view important phases of non-Pauline Christianity and its leaders through Paul’s eyes, it cannot be helped. We have to accept the situation and be thankful that we can at

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