Jesus’ Resurrection

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Jesus' resurrection is a fascinating microcosm of larger questions about Theism, Jesus' historical life, early Christianity as it related to Judaism and Hellenistic culture, the New Testament, eternal life and Christian theology.

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1. Reflections and meditations on the Resurrection
2. Christian academics who focus on Jesus' resurrection
3. Debating the Resurrection

1. Reflections and meditations on the Resurrection

These links are simply for those wanting to reflect on Jesus' death and/or resurrection from a Christian perspective, for example during Easter.

Bitter Journey: The Way of the Cross — multimedia following the 'Stations of the Cross': Flash/non-Flash versions, at Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/21/story_2151_1.html

Face to Face with God — Kim Hawtrey asks, If you were to come face to face with God, what would you say? And more to the point, what do you expect he would say to you?

http://www.anglicanmedia.com.au/index.php/article/articleview/685/1/80/

Seven Sayings from the Cross — a meditation on Easter, from rejesus.co.uk

http://rejesus.co.uk/spirituality/seven_sayings/index.html

The Passion of the Christ — Mel Gibson's film on Jesus death; official site.

http://www.thepassionofthechrist.com/

2. Christian academics who focus on Jesus' resurrection

N. T. Wright — Bishop of Durham, Theologian, Historian

http://home.hiwaay.net/~kbush/wrightpage.html

William Lane Craig — Theologian, Philospher

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/

3. Debating the Resurrection

Debates over the resurrection are something of a tradition between Christians and Atheists.

Articles: Historical Jesus — Articles by William Lane Craig, mostly on aspects of the Resurrection

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/historical.html

Debating links — A collection of debating resources

/html/page/debating

Evidence for the Resurrection — Good example of Josh McDowell's style of argument, not the best thing going around, just the best known

http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/josh2.html

Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ — a webpage apparently providing an outline of Peter Kreeft's Handbook of Christian Apologetics — a Catholic approach to the question

http://hometown.aol.com/philvaz/articles/num9.htm

How not to debate — by Jeffery Jay Lowder, of Infidels.org: why atheists have frequently fared worse-than-expected in atheist-Christian debates, from an atheist perspective (and what to do about it).

http://www.infidels.org/infidels/newsletter/1997/october.html#debate

Internet Infidels Modern Library: Resurrection — The best collection of educated atheistic arguments against the resurrection; Carrier and Lowder in particular are excellent

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/christianity/resurrection.html

Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus? — A Debate between William Lane Craig and Bart D. Ehrman; College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 28, 2006

http://www.holycross.edu/departments/crec/website/resurrection-debate-transcript.pdf

Michael Horner vs. Dan Barker — Michael Horner is a Christian philosopher, and Dan Barker a former Christian minister now associated with the Freedom from Religion Foundation; good free-ranging debate incl. direct questioning

http://www.ffrf.org/debates/barker_horner.html

Norman Gielser vs. Farrell Till — a bit too brief, but not a bad place to start

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/geisler-till/index.shtml

The Historical Veracity of the Resurrection Narratives — By Greg Herrick

http://www.bible.org/docs/theology/christ/hisjesus.htm

William Lane Craig: Debates — Craig is the most prominent of Christian academics engaging in debates of this kind. This collection of debates is excellent.

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/debates.html