Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?

A Debate Between William Lane Craig & Gerd Ludemann

Edited by Paul Copan and Ronald K. Tacelli

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 206 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: October 2000

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1569-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1569-2
IVP Order Code: 1569

Related Subjects

Apologetics

Was the resurrection of Jesus a fact of history or a figment of imagination? Was it an event that entailed a raised and transformed body and an empty tomb? Or was it a subjective, visionary experience--a collective delusion? In the view of many, the truth of Christianity hangs on the answer to this question.

Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment? is a lively and provocative debate between Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig and New Testament scholar and atheist Gerd Lüdemann. This published version of a debate originally set at Boston College is edited by Paul Copan and Ronald K. Tacelli, who invite the responses of four additional scholars. Robert Gundry, a New Testament scholar, and Stephen Davis, a philosopher, argue in support of a historical and actual resurrection. Michael Goulder and Roy Hoover, both New Testament scholars, offer their support for Gerd Lüdemann's view that the "resurrection" was based on the guilt-induced visionary experience of the disciples. The book concludes with a final response from Lüdemann and Craig.

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