Christian faith complicates the task of historical writing.
Overlapping, and even contradictory, Christian models for thinking and writing about the past abound--from accountings empathetic toward past religious expressions, to history imbued with Chri.
Christian historians taking up the challenge of writing about the past have thus struggled to craft a single, identifiable Christian historiography.
It does so because Christianity is at once deeply historical and profoundly transhistorical.
Christian faith complicates the task of historical writing