ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Saint Paul's life story told by himself and by the Gospel of Luke as the basis of his theology and an example of biographical speech. A new publication with materials for religious education in state schools in Germany for boys and girls aged 13 to 15 contains a chapter on Paul on a narrative basis. It starts with Paul in Rome as a prisoner in confinement in a house near a barrackyard before his trial is opened, which as we know was to end with his execution. Paul's focus on care and responsibility is less concerning his own conscience; it manifests his conscience as liberated from his own self and having become a 'conscience for others'. This switch of awareness from one's own pious edification to the conscience of others indicates also the new location of ethics, of religious as well as moral actions in the Christian's life.
