than just assume, that everything changed for Paul. This is perhaps the greatest pedagogical help that Stendahl provided. While there is much that can and should be commended about Stendahl’s emphasis on call rather than conversion, there is criticism that needs to be raised. The Paul we meet in both Acts and his letters is Paul the persecutor, one who oversaw the murder of fellow Jews who in his mind had apostatized by following Jesus as Messiah and had now put the whole nation at risk. What Stendahl’s