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But the possibility of reading Paul’s letters in search of narrative worlds is inviting when we come to ask about the kind of story which formed his larger narrative world…What were the stories which gave narrative depth to Paul’s worldview, which formed an irreducible part of his symbolic universe?…and it is arguable that we can only understand the more limited narrative worlds of the different letters if we locate them at their appropriate points within this overall story-world, and indeed within the symbolic universe that accompanies it. (N404-405) "These major features of Paul’s theology only make sense within a large-scale retelling of the essentially Jewish story, seen now from the point of view of one who believes that the climactic moment has already arrived, and that the time to implement that great achievement is already present…Paul, like Luke, believed that the End had come and that the End was yet to come. (N.T. Wright. The New Testament and the People of God 406)