new people of God. W. A. Beardslee can say: “The apostle’s preaching was not merely eschatological in its subject matter; it was itself a part of the eschatological drama. The apostle was called, not just to build a group of believers, but to take part in the work of God which is to culminate in a wholly new order of existence.”7 Anton Fridrichsen agrees: “When Paul in Romans introduces himself as a ‘called apostle’ he characterizes himself as an eschatological person. He is a man who has been appointed