The Resurrection of Jesus by Michael R. Licona

He also makes a thorough engagement with historical-critics who explain the resurrection faith of the early church in other ways (e.g., Geza Vermes, Michael Goulder, Gerd Ludemann, John Dominic Crossan, Pieter Craffert). Licona also goes on a meticulous and painstaking analysis of the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection including the fact of Jesus’ death, appearances to the disciples, the conversions of Paul and James, and the empty tomb. There is an exhaustive analysis of the historical sources to the resurrection. It includes a magisterial treatment on historiography taking into account scientific, philosophical, and legal matters. But Michael Licona comes close on both fronts.

Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God. I did not think anyone could or would write a book on the resurrection bigger and better than N.T. In light of the findings, ways of presenting the case for the resurrection to an individual from a western background will be suggested.The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach Western culture is broken down into pre-modern, modern, and postmodern with particular attention to relativism and pluralism. An analysis of western culture is then undertaken considering some of the typical objections that are raised against the resurrection. It is argued that there is substantial support for the resurrection of Jesus being an actual historical event.

Several theories to explain these data are considered including the apparent death hypothesis, the conspiracy theory, the hallucination hypothesis, and the resurrection hypothesis. Various objections will be considered including a denial of the burial accounts, women as a literary creation and that the gospels were written too late. Peter), the conversion of enemies such as Saul and the conversion of non-believers such as James, the brother of Jesus.

The following masters thesis examines the evidence for and against the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth and considers three ways through which one can know the truthfulness of the resurrection, namely, through the testimony of the Holy Spirit, the witness of the Bible, and the historical evidence, including Jesus’ death, burial, the empty tomb, and the early disciples’ belief that they had seen appearances of Jesus resulting in their change from cowardice to martyrdom (i.e.

The Resurrection of Jesus by Michael R. Licona