Abstract
The paper deals with the ideological and religious texture of early Christianity in a correlation to the postmodern situation. Characterization of the religious and ideological background of the ancient Mediterranean society is supplemented by an analysis of selected New Testament passages concerned to Paul's mission.
The ideological texture is concerned with the contrast of ideas that structure the situation of writers and readers and are a source of interaction between different groups. One of the more prevalent contrasts is the interaction between Jewish aspects of Christianity and its trajectory towards the pagan Greco-Roman world.