Risen Indeed: A Historical Investigation Into the Resurrection of Jesus

by Gary R. Habermas

Overview

2021 Southwestern Journal of Theology Book of the Year Honorable Mention for Christian Worldview/Apologetics

A pivotal contribution to the history of apologetics.

Gary Habermas has spent a career defending the historicity and truthfulness of the resurrection of Jesus. But his earliest writing on Jesus' resurrection has been unavailable to the broader public, until now.

In Risen Indeed: A Historical Investigation Into the Resurrection of Jesus, readers will encounter Gary Habermas' foundational research into the historicity of the resurrection. With a new, extensive, introductory essay on contemporary scholarship regarding the resurrection, Habermas shows how the questions surrounding the historicity of the resurrection and arguments raised by critics are perennially important for Christian faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683595496
Publisher:	Lexham Press
Publication date:	11/03/2021
Edition description:	Lexham Academic
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gary R. Habermas (PhD, Michigan State University) is Distinguished Research Professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Liberty University. He is a foremost apologist on the historicity of Jesus' resurrection and has authored and coauthored over forty books, including The Historical Jesus and The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (with Michael R. Licona).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Approaching the Question of the Resurrection of Jesus

Chapter I The Present State of the Question 31

Chapter II The Possibility of Miracles Today 48

Chapter III History and Miracles 65

Chapter IV Reason and Faith 73

Part 2 Possible Solutions to the Question of the Resurrection of Jesus

Chapter V Possibility Number One: That the Resurrection Did Not Occur 89

Chapter VI Possibility Number One: Other Similar Views 112

Chapter VII Possibility Number Two: That the Resurrection Did Occur, But That It Cannot be Demonstrated 152

Chapter VIII Possibility Number Two: Other Similar Views 170

Chapter IX Possibility Number Three: That the Resurrection Did Occur and That It Can Be Demonstrated 189

Chapter X Possibility Number Three: Other Similar Views 215

Part 3 An Evaluation of the Solutions to the Question of the Resurrection of Jesus

Chapter XI An Evaluation of Possibility Number One 235

Chapter XII An Evaluation of Possibility Number Two 245

Chapter XIII An Evaluation of Possibility Number Three 250

Chapter XIV A Concluding Demonstration 254

Bibliography 271

Index of Subjects and Persons 289

Index of Scripture 297

Editorial Reviews

There is no one—no one—alive today or in the past, who has researched the matter of the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus than Professor Gary Habermas. He has reflected on the matter for six decades! In addition to being the preeminent scholar on the topic, he is one of the very finest people I know and is loved and respected by Christians and even many skeptics.

—Michael Licona, Houston Baptist University

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