Even only the introduction to Herbert Butterfield’s 1949 Christianity and History, plus my readiness now, allows me to recognize how journeys to Mount Sinai, or Jerusalem, or Rome, or Alexandria, or… are searching in the matters of history for Meaning and Sense that far transcends them.
This is not like searching in nature for God around Walden Pond, nor diving into the Self in Varanasi.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 