ABSTRACT
The name deuteropaulinism is used to cover thoseforms of Christian thought which were most widespread in the church in the period following 70. The term deuteropaulinism can be understood in a narrow sense and in a wide sense. After the synoptic gospels the book of the Acts, which is a sequel to Luke, must naturally be considered next. It belongs to the same class of documents as the synoptics, being deuteropauline in the wide sense of the term, but its deuteropaulinism is much more distinct because in it there are commingled two currents of thought, one being that of Jerusalemite Christianity and the other being Paulinism. The epistle to the Ephesians shows how an established form of Christian thought found a place for a chain of ideas which were foreign to Christianity and were assimilated without any effect on Christian essentials.
