Christian History

“There is no reason that it had to happen this way.” I heard this quote or something very similar in many of my history classes. If no one explicitly said this, then almost invariably throughout the semester the discussion of one topic or another would lead back to the question about why things happened the way they did, and the claim that there really was no underlying reason that events unfolded as they did. Honestly, I sat in many classes, heard this discussion, and didn’t give it a second...