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Peter, Stephen, James, and John: Studies in Non-Pauline Diversity in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

At the beginning of his book The Primitive Church, published in 1929, B. H. Streeter drew attention to the question, “What became of the Twelve Apostles?”12 It is remarkable how difficult it is to answer this question—the more remarkable when we consider the important part which the twelve play in the gospel record and the commission which they are said to have received from the risen Christ, to be his witnesses and to win disciples for him among all nations.13 Presumably
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