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...book Peter (Westminster Press; $4.50), just published in English translation, Professor Oscar Cullmann, of Basel and the Sorbonne, one of Protestantism's most distinguished Church historians, gives his evaluation of the apostle's work and stature. Lutheran Cullmann breaks with some of his fellow Protestants in insisting on Peter's primacy in the original church, and on the genuineness of the disputed text from St. Matthew's gospel supporting it. But he sharply rejects the Catholic claim that Peter began the papal succession. His finding: "In the life of Peter there is no starting point...