Although we see evidence that God's love and power have frequently broken in upon the ordinary course of human affairs, our caution in declaring this is reinforced by our justifiable disapproval of chroniclers who take the easy way out and use divine miracles as a short-circuit of a causal explanation that is obviously, or a least defensibly, naturalistic. We must not use history as a storehouse from which deceptively simple moral lessons may be drawn at random.


-Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (pg. 237)