'What I am suggesting is that faith in Jesus risen from the dead transcends but includes what we call history and what we call science. Faith of this sort is not blind belief which rejects all history and science. Nor is it simply - which would be much 'safer'! - a belief which inhabits a totally different sphere, discontinuous from either, in a separate watertight compartment. Rather, this kind of faith, which like all modes of knowledge is defined by the nature of its object, is faith in the creator God, the God who has promised to put all things to right at the last, the God who (as the sharp point where these two come together) has raised Jesus from the dead within history, leaving evidence which demands an explanation from the scientist as well as everybody else.'
Tom Wright, Surprised by Hope, p.83.
