History is a realm open to rational investigation.
It is distinguished from the area of myth, fiction, and subjective experience. Jesus in history means that Jesus lived, died, and rose again in a part of our world which can be located on a map and in a time that can be placed on a calendar. The New Testament insists on the fact that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ belong to the category of objective history and not to that of an inner experience. What Jesus wrought in history is for us and, therefore, is announced to us, as to men of the past. But whether we ever are aware of it or not, whether it ever affects us or not, it is there in all its reality, like the shining of the sun in the sky.