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INTRODUCTION
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG
GERD LUDEMANN
STEPHEN T. DAVIS
MICHAEL GOULDER
ROBERT H. GUNDRY
Roy W. HoovER
as though I play with the thought.-If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave
According to Craig, "The most reasonable historical explanation for the facts of the empty tomb, the
Ludemann defends a visionary hypothesis of the resurrection. He has long maintained that "we can no
Given the "revolution in the scientific view of the world," all statements about the resurrection
At the time of the debate, Ludemann considered himself to be a Christian theologian. He had insisted
The reduction of the Christian faith "to a minimum by comparison with former times" is, he said, "
involve the extraordinary intervention of God. But, according to Hume, there can never be a good rea
of the space-time manifold. But these individual contents-that go by the technical name of intuition
It is impossible to use the electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modem medical
Now insofar as these unstated assumptions include Kant's strictures on the scope of scientific knowl
The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has ... himself, . .
Also, Ludemann is troubled by what he sees as the roots of anti-Semitism in the Gospels. As he has a
On the other side of the ledger, Craig offers a longer and more detailed response.13
Robert J. Miller of the Jesus Seminar once complained that apologetical arguments-whether Christian,
First, we agree, in Dr. Liidemann's words, that "the resurrection of Jesus is the central point of t
Second, we agree that if someone asks us, "What really happened?" it is not enough to tell him to "j
Third, we agree that the historian's task is very much like that of the trial lawyer: to examine the
Fourth, we agree that if someone does not believe in the literal resurrection of Jesus, he should ha
Fifth, we agree that if someone does believe in Jesus' resurrection, he should admit that he believe
For these and other reasons, the majority of New Testament critics concur that Jesus was buried by J
I could go on, but I think that enough has been said to indicate why, in the words of Jacob Kremer,
Dr. Liidemann himself concludes, "It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the discipl
Nevertheless, the original disciples believed in and were willing to go to their deaths for the fact
With respect to the burial, he admits that it would be "going too far" to deny that Joseph of Arimat
But, he says, "We can no longer know where Joseph (or Jews unknown to us) put the body.""
With respect to the empty tomb, Dr. Ludemann dismisses it as "legend."12
Concerning the burial, Dr. Ludemann's main reason for denying Joseph's laying Jesus in the tomb is t
What about the empty tomb? Here Dr. Liidemann's skepticism is based on three assumptions, which seem
Campenhausen rightly dismisses as a scholarly fiction.15
Third, Dr. Ludemann assumes that the Jewish authorities suffered a sort of collective amnesia about
So why then, when the disciples began to preach the resurrection of Jesus, didn't the Jewish autho
In his book Justifying Historical Descriptions, historian C. B. McCullagh lists six tests used by hi
But if that is the case, then why, we may ask, does Dr. Liidemann reject the resurrection hypothesis
... demonstrated that a miracle is defined in such a way that 'no testimony is sufficient to establi
The conception of a miraculous resurrection, he says, presupposes "a philosophical realism that ha
What is particularly interesting about the references theologians make to Kant or Hume is that most
Hume's argument against miracles was already refuted in the eighteenth century by William Paley, Got
Even the atheist philosopher Antony Flew, himself a Hume scholar, admits that Hume's argument is d
The first thing I would like to say is that we are dealing here with ancient texts of a specific tim
As a young student, I heard a series of lectures given by a famous liberal Old Testament theologian
Such visions have also occurred with respect to Mary. There are many people who have seen Mary. She
The words and that are usually left out in English translations because they are grammatically unnec
3. Is it plausible? Let me give two reasons why I think Dr. LUdemann's hypothesis has little plausib
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