Category Archives: Historical Jesus
The Fact of the Resurrection and the Faith of Historians
Ehrman, Crossley and the Resurrection
Recently I’ve been reading some material on the resurrection of Jesus by two biblical scholars, James Crossley and Bart Ehrman.[i] Both are sceptics and make many similar points in their attempts to argue that there are no good grounds for belief in the resurrection.
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Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Christianity and Science, ECREE, Evidence, History, Jesus. Evidence for the Resurrection, Miracles, The Bible Tells Me So!
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Four Reasons Christianity Hasn’t Been Explained Away
The New Theism
The rhetoric of the New Atheism is so extreme that their arguments are often lost in the resultant “trolling” and “twitter wars”. This is a shame: there are many secularists who do not want to eradicate religion, but who nevertheless accept some of the central claims of the new atheists.
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Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Christianity and Science, Evidence for God, Faith and Reason, Gnus, History, New Atheism
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