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The Case For Christ

The Case for Christ records Lee Strobel's attempt to "determine if there's credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God." The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.

The Case for Christ records Lee Strobel's attempt to "determine if there's credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God." The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.

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1. Leland H. Gregory 111, "Fop Ten Government Bloopers," George<br />

(November 1997), 78.<br />

2. Charles Templeton, Farewell to God (Toronto: McClelland &<br />

Stewart, 1996),112.<br />

3. Wilson, Jesus: <strong>The</strong> Evidence, 141.<br />

4. Ibid., 109, emphasis in original.<br />

5. "A <strong>Case</strong> of Congenital Ichthyosiform Erythrodermia of Brocq<br />

Treated by Hypnosis," British Medical Journal 2 (1952), 996,<br />

cited in Wilson, Jesus: <strong>The</strong> Evidence, 103.<br />

6. M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie (New York: Touchstone, 1997).<br />

7. Wilson, Jesus: <strong>The</strong> Evidence, 107.<br />

8. C. S. Lewis, <strong>The</strong> Screwtape Letters (London: Collins-Fontana,<br />

1942), 9. 9. Philip Schaff, <strong>The</strong> Person of <strong>Christ</strong> (New York:<br />

American Tract Society, 1918),97, cited in McDowell, Evidence<br />

That Demands a Verdict, 107, emphasis added.<br />

CHAPTER 9: THE PROFILE EVIDENCE<br />

1. Marla Donato, "That Guilty Look," Chicago Tribune (April 1,<br />

1994). 2. Denny Johnson, "Police Add Electronic 'Sketch Artist'<br />

to <strong>The</strong>ir Bag of Tricks," Chicago Tribune (June 22, 1997).<br />

3. Templeton, Farewell to God, 230.<br />

4. Morton Smith, "Biblical Arguments for Slavery," Free Inquiry<br />

(Spring 1987),30.<br />

5. Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture (New York: Basic, 1995). 6.<br />

Josh McDowell and Bart Larson, Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His<br />

Deity (San Bernardino, Calif: Here's Life, 1983), 62-64.<br />

CHAPTER 10: THE FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE<br />

1. Evans, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Case</strong>book of <strong>For</strong>ensic Detection, 98-100.<br />

2. Lee Strobel, "'Textbook'Thumbprint Aids Conviction in Coed's<br />

Killing," Chicago Tribune (June 29, 1976).<br />

3. <strong>For</strong> basic details on fulfilled prophecies, see McDowell,<br />

Evidence That Demands a Verdict, 141-77.<br />

4. Peter W, Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1969),<br />

109. 5. <strong>For</strong> a discussion of the Daniel prophecy, see Robert C.<br />

Newman, "Fulfilled Prophecy As Miracle," in R. Douglas Geivett<br />

and Gary R. Habermas, eds., In Defense of Miracles (Downers<br />

Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 214-25.<br />

6. Stan Telchin, Betrayed! (Grand Rapids: Chosen, 1982).<br />

7. Ruth Rosen, ed., Jewish Doctors Meet the Great Physician (San<br />

Francisco: Purple Pomegranate, 1997), 9-23.<br />

8. Ibid., 34-35.<br />

CHAPTER 11: THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE

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