Second, there was Paul’s adult experience of conversion, which gave his theological thought a very strong impression of contrasts—of then and now, of before and after. Unlike so many theologians of later times, Paul did not inherit a Christian worldview. His vocation, rather, was to create such a thing from his own experience. For this reason, Paul’s thought ever remains the Church’s cutting blade, the biting edge of her apologetics and evangelism. Third, several aspects of Paul’s theology developed