Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

by Connie Willis

How could God have sent His only Son, His precious child, into such danger? The answer is love. Love.” “Or incompetence,” Dunworthy muttered.

All of Europe knows it, and the Church knows it, too. It will hang on for a few more centuries, making excuses, but it can’t overcome the essential fact—that He let this happen. That He comes to no one’s rescue.