Peter’s message like Paul’s focused on Jesus’ death and resurrection.  Both events were real, objective and historical.  And surely the right response to the existential mood of today is not to create a parallel Christian existentialism which despises history in favour of experience, and demythologizes the resurrection into an inward encounter with reality, but rather to offer to the modern mind as it flounders in the quicksands of subjectivity the objective bedrock of Jesus Christ whose death and resurrection are solid historical events.

John R.W. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World