As a later example of the first approach, Stewart describes how Paul’s “growing sense of the failure of Judaism” gave way to the sudden conviction “that he had found the truth for which all men everywhere were seeking”;17 typifying the second, Baur argued that Paul’s conversion transformed his earlier fear that Christianity would “undermine” Judaism because of its “refusal to regard religion as a thing bound down to special ordinances and localities” into the belief that Christ represented an inner,