because he was talking with great insight at a critical moment about the God revealed in Jesus with whom we are all involved. But I will go on to craft this theology for the modern period—without reducing it to modern thinking—by probing for the places where possible inconsistencies can be helpfully exposed and dealt with, where it needs to have scientific claims inserted and recognized, and where his insights need to be pressed further and amplified. We will move, then, from Paul to Pauline theology