An early full formulation of the historical case for the empty tomb of Jesus was compiled by Edward L. Bode in 1970. Bode was a clear influence on William Lane Craig, who cites Bode’s work on 28 pages of his book Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus. Bode’s Read More…
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The Resurrection Case in 1969
By the late 1960s, following the work of Wolfhart Pannenberg and other post-Bultmanneans, the main elements of the contemporary case for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus began to fall into place. This development is illustrated by an article that appeared in 1969 that was written by a Catholic scholar, Joseph J. Smith, S.J. Read More…
Dale Allison, William Lane Craig, and the Empty Tomb
I finished reading Dale C. Allison’s Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and its Interpreters. Overall I would say it’s the best treatment I’ve read so far of the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus. Dale tries to be judicious, considers alternative points of view in a serious manner, and attempts to weigh the Read More…
The Contemporary Case for the Resurrection: Major Contributors
Is there sufficient evidence to rationally compel one to believe that the bodily resurrection of Jesus is a historical fact? The issue has been explored in various ways by philosophers, historians, and New Testament scholars. In the contemporary world, the key scholars who have explored the historicity of the resurrection on the side of the Read More…
Beginning the Search
I’ve been researching the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus, so I thought I’d start posting my notes online, in case anyone else might happen to be interested. I first started reading about the historical case for the resurrection in 2010, after I discovered the works of William Lane Craig. I originally encountered Craig’s Read More…