" I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and faith, at arm’s length from one another. There is a good intention behind this move: each of these disciplines has its own proper shape and logic, and cannot simply be turned into a branch of the other. "

― N.T. Wright , The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)