Source criticism techniques devised by theologians produced modern secular history.

Evidence

However, it is not so much the alleged motives of theologians that interest me as the techniques they devised—such as “source criticism”—that helped to produce the field of modern secular history. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 200

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the specific genealogy of source criticism from Pietist/Enlightenment theology into secular historical method — did secular history inherit its skepticism from the very church it displaced?