During the Enlightenment period, we find several forms of criticism that challenged Christian theology and Christology. Reason became the norm of the period. Secular study and science proved to be the most effective methods of the time for the acquiring of knowledge. Human reason took precedent over spiritual enlightenment in Biblical matters. Philosophers like: Kant and Locke; found religion a moral necessity and a call to moral life. With an absence of focus on Trinitarian theology and attentions turned to natural religion, a new Christology; the quest of the historical Jesus came into existence. The quest was simple: there was a void between the real Jesus of history and the supernatural testimony of the New Testament Jesus of the Bible.
