Christianity is grounded in history, not sensation. The earliest believers followed Jesus Christ not because it felt good, but because they discovered the Son’s rising was the only reality that could be counted on in a world of constant change. Reason vs. Experience In addition to affluent preoccupation and poor theology, we might consider how the impact of the Enlightenment, which gained a foothold in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, turned faith into an intellectual quest and