This article examines the scholarly construct of Paulinism, discussing its origins and briefly tracing its evolution, from F. C. Baur's introduction of the concept to a new, widened paradigm inaugurated by Hans-Martin Schenke (among others), symbolically coming to maturity in the 1987 conference on Paul and the Legacies of Paul. With this new understanding of Paulinism has come an expansion of its field of application. This article suggests that this expanded understanding of Paulinism could be fruitfully applied to the analysis of the Nag Hammadi texts, supplementing the pivotal work of Klaus Koschorke in his article, "Paulus in den Nag-Hammadi-Texten."
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