Top 10 Books on Jesus' Resurrection
With Easter about a month away, I thought I'd present my top 10 books concerning the historical event that inspired that holiday: Jesus' resurrection.
1. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona
2. Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment ed. Paul Copan and Ronald Tacelli
3. Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? ed. Paul Copan
4. The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
5. The Historical Jesus by Gary Habermas
6. Jesus Under Fire ed. J.P. Moreland and Mike Wilkins (see William Lane Craig's chapter)
7. The Risen Jesus and Future Hope by Gary Habermas
8. Resurrected? by Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
9. The Case for Christ? by Lee Strobel
10. Risen Indeed by Stephen T. Davis
1. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona
2. Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment ed. Paul Copan and Ronald Tacelli
3. Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? ed. Paul Copan
4. The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
5. The Historical Jesus by Gary Habermas
6. Jesus Under Fire ed. J.P. Moreland and Mike Wilkins (see William Lane Craig's chapter)
7. The Risen Jesus and Future Hope by Gary Habermas
8. Resurrected? by Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
9. The Case for Christ? by Lee Strobel
10. Risen Indeed by Stephen T. Davis
posted by Tom Wanchick at 9:52 PM
8 Comments:
All those thousands of pages, and they still fail to produce a shred of evidence for Paul's claim that Jesus became a spirit.
Paul claimed Jesus was resurrected bodily, not in spirit form.
Try substantiating your claim that the arguments provided in these books fail. I have zero confidence that you can.
So I was lying was I when I said Paul claimed 'the last Adam became a life-giving spirit'?
Actually Stephen T. Davis' book is the best of the lot. But notice that he hangs the bodily resurrection on a very slender reed in following Paul where the seed that is sown supposedly dies before coming to life. Today seeds are considered "dormant" not "dead."
The continuity pictured by Paul is continuity through death, which is why Paul dwells on the contrast, and not a reason to think Jesus arose bodily from the grave. Surely you noticed this, otherwise you would've placed this book of his higher on your list.
And I can substantiate my claims.
Steven,
You're lying (or just mistaken) if you're claiming that Paul thought Jesus was raised a disembodied spirit.
Paul knew that Jesus rose from the grave in a glorious bodily form.
John,
I disagree that Davis' book is the best of those listed. But I don't think it inferior for the reasons you list.
Moreover, your argument regarding Paul's seed analogy is weak (for one, your applying today's terminology to a first-century text). And Davis would find no problem answering it.
If your claim is that you can give good reason for disbelieving in Jesus' historical bodily resurrection, then no, I don't think you can substantiate what you say.
Where do these books prove Paul's claim that 'You do not plant the body that will be'?
And who has read the Gospels and written that the body of Jesus that went into the ground was like a seed (without mentioning Paul)? Quotes please.
So where do these books prove Paul's claim that 'the last Adam became a life-giving spirit'?
And where do they prove that somebody in a 'glorious bodily form' could easily be mistaken for a gardener?
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