Christians are committed to the notion that the margins may be the center: We believe that a stable in Bethlehem-Judah is the site where a new humanity is born; that catacombs serve as incubator for a renewed empire; that German barbarians are the wave of future civilization; that Africans might have a hand in reviving American Christianity.
In this way, Christian historiography shares something with postmodern and postcolonial historiography, over against modernist historiography that insists that the economic and political center is THE historical center.
