precisely its theological robustness. Ellis maintains that “[l]ike Jesus and the New Testament writers generally, he [Paul] displayed no interest in using his ministry for broader humanitarian concerns” other than the release of individual souls “from the bondage of death.” This lack of interest in humanitarian concern was “rooted in the Apostle’s total theological outlook, which, like early Christianity generally, had more affinities with Epicurean withdrawal from society than with Stoic engagement