My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism - World Union of Deists

FLEW: Well, one thing I’ll say in this comparison is that, for goodness sake, Jesus is an
enormously attractive charismatic figure, which the Prophet of Islam most emphatically is not.
1 “Christianity Challenges the University: An International Conference of Theists and Atheists,” Dallas,
Texas, February 7–10, 1985, organized by Roy Abraham Varghese.
2 See Gary R. Habermas and Antony G. N. Flew, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? The Resurrection Debate,
ed. Terry L. Miethe (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987; Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2003).
3 Some examples by Antony Flew include “Miracles and Methodology,” in Hume’s Philosophy of Belief: A
Study of His First Inquiry (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961); “The Credentials of Revelation: Miracle and
History,” in God and Philosophy (New York: Dell, 1966); “Miracles,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul
Edwards (New York: Macmillan, 1967); “The Impossibility of the Miraculous,” in Hume’s Philosophy of Religion,
(Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1985); introduction to Of Miracles, by David Hume (La Salle,
IL: Open Court, 1985); “Neo-Humean Arguments about the Miraculous” in In Defence of Miracles: A
Comprehensive Case for God’s Action in History, ed. R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas (Downers Grove,
IL: Inter Varsity Press, 1997).
4 Some examples by Gary Habermas include The Risen Jesus and Future Hope (Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2003); The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ (Joplin, MO; College, 1996);
The Resurrection of Jesus: An Apologetic (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1980; Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1984); “Knowing that Jesus’ Resurrection Occurred: A Response to Stephen Davis,” Faith and Philosophy
2 (1985): 295–302; “Resurrection Claims in Non-Christian Religions,” Religious Studies 25 (1989): 167–77; “The
Late Twentieth-Century Resurgence of Naturalistic Responses to Jesus’ Resurrection,” Trinity Journal 22 (2001):
179–96. For a more popular treatment, see Habermas and Michael R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus
(Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2004).
5 Gary R. Habermas and Antony G. N. Flew, Resurrected? An Atheist and Theist Debate, ed. John
Ankerberg (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).
6 The dialogue took place as a part of the Veritas Forum and is accessible at
http://www.veritasforum.com/talks/httm.
7 Telephone conversation, September 9, 2004.
8 Both participants also agreed to the title of the interview.
9 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).
10 Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom (New
York: Broadway Books, 1998).
11 Letter from Antony Flew, November 9, 2000.
12 Antony Flew, “God and the Big Bang” (lecture, 2000), 5–6; this is a lecture commemorating the 140th
anniversary of the British Association meeting regarding Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species.
13 C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1980), especially Book 1.
14 Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London: Hutchinson, 1948).