Pannenberg, however, pointed out the implicit bias against the miraculous that was present in historical reasoning and in the process cut to the heart of modern claims of impartiality and objectivity. By moving the historical argumentation about the resurrection out of the realm of objective certainty and reestablishing it on the grounds of warrants and explanatory value, Pannenberg moved the discussion of history and revelation from a foundationalist to a postfoundationalist basis. In other words, Pannenberg’s argument for the historicity of the resurrection, and thus for God’s revelation in
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