While evidence for Christ’s resurrection abounds, there are still those who posit alternative explanations for the empty tomb. In On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations, Gary Habermas offers detailed analyses and rebuttals of the alternate theories surrounding Jesus’s resurrection.
Comprehensive in scope, On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations addresses topics such as:
Habermas engages critically with the arguments and offers a comprehensive apologetic for the reality of Christ’s resurrection.
Published in four volumes, On the Resurrection serves as Gary R. Habermas’s magnum opus – a comprehensive defense of the authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, built from Habermas’s lifetime of scholarly study.
Ancient Sources Abbreviation List
Introduction: Refutations
1 Second-Century Challenges to the Death and Resurrection of Jesus
2 Hume 1: The Argument against Miracles
3 Hume 2: Reformulations of Hume
4 Nineteenth-Century Liberalism and Alternative Resurrection Theories
5 Nineteenth-Century Liberals versus Liberals on Alternative Theories
6 Nineteenth-Century Conservatives versus Liberals on Alternative Theories
7 Twentieth Century: Barth, Bultmann, and Beyond
8 Discrepancies and the Resurrection
9 Fraud Type 1: The Disciples Stole the Body
10 Fraud Type 2: Someone Else Stole the Body
11 The Swoon or Apparent Death Theory
12 Legend 1: Dying-and-Rising Gods
13 Legend 2: Historical Persons Resurrected?
14 Illumination and Illusion Hypotheses
15 Hallucination
16 Objective Visions
17 Resurrection Agnosticism
18 Five Reasons for the Failure of Naturalistic Theories
19 Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Talpiot Tomb
Appendix 2: Proving Naturalism and Related Views?
Appendix 3: Islam and the Resurrection of Jesus
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
While evidence for Christ’s resurrection abounds, there are still those who posit alternative explanations for the empty tomb. In On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations, Gary Habermas offers detailed analyses and rebuttals of the alternate theories surrounding Jesus’s resurrection.
Comprehensive in scope, On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations addresses topics such as:
Habermas engages critically with the arguments and offers a comprehensive apologetic for the reality of Christ’s resurrection.
Published in four volumes, On the Resurrection serves as Gary R. Habermas’s magnum opus – a comprehensive defense of the authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, built from Habermas’s lifetime of scholarly study.
Ancient Sources Abbreviation List
Introduction: Refutations
1 Second-Century Challenges to the Death and Resurrection of Jesus
2 Hume 1: The Argument against Miracles
3 Hume 2: Reformulations of Hume
4 Nineteenth-Century Liberalism and Alternative Resurrection Theories
5 Nineteenth-Century Liberals versus Liberals on Alternative Theories
6 Nineteenth-Century Conservatives versus Liberals on Alternative Theories
7 Twentieth Century: Barth, Bultmann, and Beyond
8 Discrepancies and the Resurrection
9 Fraud Type 1: The Disciples Stole the Body
10 Fraud Type 2: Someone Else Stole the Body
11 The Swoon or Apparent Death Theory
12 Legend 1: Dying-and-Rising Gods
13 Legend 2: Historical Persons Resurrected?
14 Illumination and Illusion Hypotheses
15 Hallucination
16 Objective Visions
17 Resurrection Agnosticism
18 Five Reasons for the Failure of Naturalistic Theories
19 Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Talpiot Tomb
Appendix 2: Proving Naturalism and Related Views?
Appendix 3: Islam and the Resurrection of Jesus
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
