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An audio version of the debate can also be found here. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? Is there good evidence that such an event actually occurred in human history, or is it merely the product of Christian legend and religious wishful thinking? Listen as William Lane Craig presents his case for viewing the resurrection of Jesus, not as a mythical product of legendary development, but as a historically attested and therefore literal event in human history. (7:30)
The above video is an excerpt of the “Great Resurrection Debate” between Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig and American liberal theologian, bible scholar, and former Episcopalian Bishop, John Shelby Spong. Continue reading Video: “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?”
Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Crossway Books; 3rd edition Date: June 30, 2008 Language: English ISBN-10: 1433501155 ISBN-13: 978-1433501159 My Rating: 9 out of 10
Excellent book! With the onset of the so called “New Atheism” and the recent populist works of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennet, Harris and the like, this new edition couldn’t have come at a better time. Filled with cogent and compelling arguments, Craig responds to (and literally obliterates) several of the modern challenges and objections to Christianity with astonishing precision and erudition, while maintaining an attitude of gentleness and respect (as opposed to the insulting sarcasm and empty rhetoric immanent in the works of some of his opponents). Although the book is accessible and understandable to the layman, nevertheless, it is written at a collegiate level and is not an easy read. Unless one is well read, and current, in fields such as philosophy, cosmology, quantum physics, church history, etc., this book will be challenging and hard to get through, as it was for me.
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Zondervan Date: February 1, 2009 Language: English ISBN-10: 0310292018 ISBN-13: 978-0310292012 My Rating: 8 out of 10
Great introductory level book dealing with the current wave of skepticism with regards to who the “real” Jesus was. |
“The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not… [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”
- William Lane Craig
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