volume 9, issue 2, 2017, pages 186-207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsETVN5687
Published online: 2017-12-01
Published in print: 2017-12-30

Abstract: The title of this contribution is developed in the present study. It deals with the relationship between Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles and the Mother church of Jerusalem. The first part of this intervention deals with the “growth” of the early community in Jerusalem and its impact on the rest of the other Christian communities in the first cent. AD. The second part outlines the figure of Paul before his “apostolic calling”, then his mission “among the nations”. Finally, Paul’s double movement is presented with regard to the “Mother church of Jerusalem”: the staggering force that drew him to her and the centrifugal force that moved him away from her. Exegetes often “dramatize” these relations between Paul and the “Mother church of Jerusalem,” but it could only be a “ongoing dialogue” in which various people of early Christianity sought a clear solution in order to co-exist peacefully.