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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. Surah IV- 156-57.<br />

2. Wilson, Jesus: <strong>The</strong> Evidence, 140.<br />

3. Craig, Reasonable Faith, 234.<br />

4. D. H. Lawrence, Love among the Haystacks and Other Stories<br />

(New York: Penguin, 1960), 125.<br />

5. Hugh Schonfield, <strong>The</strong> Passover Plot (New York: Bantam, 1965),<br />

165. 6. Habermas, <strong>The</strong> Verdict of History, 56.<br />

7. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood,<br />

Holy Grail (New York: Delacorte, 1982), 372.<br />

8. Johnson, <strong>The</strong> Real Jesus, 30.<br />

9. J. W, Hewitt, "<strong>The</strong> Use of Nails in the Crucifixion," Harvard<br />

<strong>The</strong>ological Review 25 (1932), 29-45, cited in Josh McDowell, <strong>The</strong><br />

Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, Calif: Here's Life, 1981),<br />

45.<br />

10. William D. Edwards et al., "On the Physical Death of Jesus<br />

<strong>Christ</strong>," Journal of the American Medical Association (March 21,<br />

1986), 1455-63. CHAPTER 12: THE EVIDENCE OF THE MISSING BODY<br />

1. Gerald O'Collins, <strong>The</strong> Easter Jesus (London: Darton, Longman &<br />

Todd, 1973), 134, cited in Craig, <strong>The</strong> Son Rises, 136.<br />

2. <strong>For</strong> a tape of the debate, see William Lane Craig and Frank<br />

Zindler, Atheism vs. <strong>Christ</strong>ianity. Where Does the Evidence Point?<br />

(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993), videocassette.<br />

3. Templeton, Farewell to God, 120.<br />

4. Martin, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Case</strong> against <strong>Christ</strong>ianity, 78-79.<br />

5. Ibid., 81.<br />

6. Michael Grant, Jesus: An Historian Review of the Gospels (New<br />

York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1977), 176.<br />

7. Kirsopp Lake, <strong>The</strong> Historical Evidencefor the Resurrection<br />

ofJesus <strong>Christ</strong> (London: Williams & Norgate, 1907), 247-79, cited<br />

in William Lane Craig. Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection<br />

(Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 19881). 35-36.<br />

8. J. N. D. Anderson, <strong>The</strong> Evidencefor the Resurrection (Downers<br />

Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1966), 20.<br />

CHAPTER 13: THE EVIDENCE OF APPEARANCES<br />

1. "Bomb Victim's Body Not in Grave," Chicago Tribune (January<br />

14, 1998).<br />

2. Martin, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Case</strong> against <strong>Christ</strong>ianity, 87.<br />

3. Gary Habermas and Antony Flew, Did Jesus Riseftom the Dead?<br />

<strong>The</strong> Resurrection Debate (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987), xiv.<br />

4. Ibid., xv.<br />

5. Martin, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Case</strong> against <strong>Christ</strong>ianity, 90.

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