How many churchgoers really believe, as matter of historical fact, that Jesus instituted the mass? (religion-online.org)
But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture. (firstthings.com)
However, my interest lies in the actual and effective emergence of a new structure of existence, and as a matter of historical fact, this occurred only by the total impact of Jesus» transformation of Jewish teaching combined with his resurrection appearances. (religion-online.org)