"it takes only one undeniable fact to topple the carefully constructed denial of the existence of such facts"

"Historians have on occasion been reprimanded for believing in the existence of facts. . . . [But] in the end, it takes only one undeniable fact to topple the carefully constructed denial of the existence of such facts."

     David C. Steinmetz, "Doing history as theologians," Calvin theological journal 50, no. 2 (November 2015):  175-176 (174-180).