In fact, when other theologians were retreating from the historical claims of Christianity because of the challenges of enlightenment thinking, Pannenberg—like Paul of Tarsus, Luke the Evangelist, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, and numerous others before him—asserted that the essence of Christianity revealed a God who was active in the events of history. It may even be the case that Pannenberg provided the most important theology of history produced in the modern period.
