Table of Contents

    • Preface Daniel Cho 9
    • Acknowledgments 11
    • Introduction: A Man, a Friendship and an Argument David Baggett 13
  • Part 1 2003 Resurrection Debate Between Antony Flew Gary Habermas 21
    • Historical Evidence for the Crucifixion, Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus 22
    • Assessing the Claims of the Resurrection 32
    • Considering the Resurrection Appearances 38
    • What Counts as Evidence? 44
    • Is Belief Justifiable? 49
    • Questions from the Audience 54
    • 1 Did the followers of Jesus move the body? And does Jesus' divinity depend on the resurrection? 54
    • 2 Are Paul's sources verifiable? 55
    • 3 What constitutes evidence in ancient documents? 56
    • 4 How does evidence for Jesus compare to evidence for Buddha or the Dalai Lama? 58
    • 5 What was your motivation for arguing against Christianity? 59
    • 6 When we die, we simply cease to exist, right? Why not consider Pascal's wager? 60
    • 7 If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, what happened to the body? 62
    • 8 If Jesus was the Son of God, should his resurrection be considered a Miracle? 63
    • 9 If God exists, wouldn't he provide some tangible evidence? And would such evidence contradict the idea of having faith 64
    • 10 What sort of resurrection were the followers of Jesus expecting? 65
    • 11 How much value does ancient evidence carry today? 66
  • Part II Antony Flew's Journey to Theism
    • My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism: A Discussion Between Antony Flew Gary Habermas 69
    • Antony Flew's Deism Revisited: A Review Essay on There Is a God Gary R. Habermas 90
    • Part III Resurrection Matters: Assessing The Habermas/Flew Discussion David Baggett 107
    • The Historical Evidence 108
    • The Resurrection Inference 122
    • Some Skeptical Challenges 129
    • Ten Philosophical Concerns 135
    • Where Flew Is 149
    • Why Flew Should Become a Christian 154
    • Appendix: Bayes's Theorem and the Resurrection 167
    • A Select Bibliography 173
    • Index 179