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Visions of Jesus: A Critical Assessment of Gerd Lüdemann's Hallucination Hypothesis
Gerd Lüdemann has become one of the most prominent and sharpest critics of the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. After igniting a firestorm of controversy in his native Germany, Lüdemann's writings have leapt the Atlantic to spark debate ...
Is God the Son Begotten in His Divine Nature?
Introduction On the Christian view God is not a single person, as traditionally conceived in Jewish monotheism, but is tri-personal. The New Testament church was sure that only one God existed, but it also affirmed that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, while...
The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus
There are probably few events in the gospels for which the historical evidence is more compelling than for the resurrection of Jesus. Historical-critical studies during the second half of this century, increasingly freed from the lingering Deistical presupposi...
The Problem of Miracles: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective
Nineteenth Century Collapse of Belief in Miracles There are two steps to follow in establishing that a miracle has occurred, according to the Göttingen professor of theology Gottfried Less in his Wahrheit der christlichen Religion (1758): first, one must...
The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus
Until recently the empty tomb has been widely regarded as both an offense to modern intelligence and an embarrassment for Christian faith; an offense because it implies a nature miracle akin to the resuscitation of a corpse and an embarrassment because it is n...
Creation, Providence, and Miracle
Creatio Ex Nihilo "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1.1). With majestic simplicity the author of the opening chapter of Genesis thus differentiated his viewpoint, not only from that of the ancient creation myths of Israel's ne...
Ben Witherington III reviews Atonement and the Death of Christ and interviews William Lane Craig
Review It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a good book on the atonement. The last one that I found really stimulating and challenging was Jurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God, and it came out 40 some years ago! As it turns out, my old...
Eleonore Stump’s Critique of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theories
Introduction In her rich and variegated book Atonement, Eleonore Stump presents her own novel theory of the atonement.[1] There is much of profit to be found here. Unfortunately, the opening section of her book is a vigorous critique of what she—m...
Is Penal Substitution Unsatisfactory?
1. Introduction In my book The Atonement I have argued that any biblically adequate atonement theory must include the notion of propitiation, that is to say, the appeasement of God’s just wrath against sin.[1] The source of God’s wrath is Hi...
Theistic Critiques Of Atheism
Introduction The last half-century has witnessed a veritable revolution in Anglo-American philosophy. In a recent retrospective, the eminent Princeton philosopher Paul Benacerraf recalls what it was like doing philosophy at Princeton during the 1950s and '...