Christian apologists work hard to defend the resurrection of Jesus, despite the woefully poor descriptions of the supposed event in the New Testament. in Biblical Studies.
David Madison, Ph.
D.
This book is a must-read, especially for Christians who may be curious enough about their faith to do at least a little due diligence.
In his engaging conversational writing style, Conner also shows the on-going damage-into our own times-that the Jesus Cult causes.
He also pulls together the New Testament texts that show just how incoherent the resurrection stories are: no wonder the apologists have to work so hard.
As this title suggests, Conner incisively demonstrates that a crucial element in early Christian belief-the arrival of Jesus on the clouds any day now-is just plain wrong.
But the task for the curious reader-trying to cut through all this clutter-has been made easy by Robert Conner\'s The Jesus Cult: 2000 Years of the Last Days.
It\'s no surprise that the apologetic literature defending the resurrection is enormous, but there has been considerable pushback from secular writers-as well as from religious scholars who can live with a metaphorical understanding of the resurrection.
I suspect they could also rise to the challenge of proving that the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella really did transform a pumpkin into a carriage.
Christian apologists work hard to defend the resurrection of Jesus, despite the woefully poor descriptions of the supposed event in the New Testament
