The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for JesusThe book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own. |
Contents
Reopening the Investigation of a Lifetime | 9 |
The Eyewitness Evidence | 19 |
Testing the Eyewitness Evidence | 38 |
The Documentary Evidence | 55 |
The Corroborating Evidence | 73 |
The Scientific Evidence | 92 |
The Rebuttal Evidence | 110 |
The Identity Evidence | 131 |
The Medical Evidence | 191 |
The Evidence of the Missing Body | 205 |
The Evidence of Appearances | 225 |
The Circumstantial Evidence | 244 |
The Verdict of History | 259 |
List of Citations | 273 |
Notes | 281 |
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