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was one rejected by Judaism and a curse of God. It was the resurrection of Jesus,
as St. Paul declares in Romans 1:4, which proclaimed Him to be 'the Son of God
with power'."60
--H. D. A. Major, Former Principal at Oxford University
Theologians
"Whether the resurrection of Jesus took place or not is a historical question, and
the historical question at this point is inescapable. And so the question has to be
decided on the level of historical argument."61
--Wolfhart Pannenberg, Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Munich
"Taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic
incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested
the idea of deficiency in the proof of it."62
--Brook Foss Westcott, Professor of Textual Criticism at Cambridge University