On the Resurrection, volume 2: Refutations

While evidence for Christ’s resurrection abounds, there are still those who posit alternative explanations for the empty tomb. In On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations, Gary Habermas offers detailed analyses and rebuttals of the alternate theories surrounding Jesus’s resurrection. Comprehensive in scope, On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations addresses topics such as: • Second-century texts that seem to challenge the resurrection • Hume’s arguments against miracles • The naturalism and skepticism of nineteenth-century German liberalism • Alternative theories such as the disciples or others stealing the body, the “swoon” theory, hallucinations, and mythological understanding Habermas engages critically with the arguments and offers a comprehensive apologetic for the reality of Christ’s resurrection. Published in four volumes, On the Resurrection serves as Gary R. Habermas’s magnum opus – a comprehensive defense of the authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, built from Habermas’s lifetime of scholarly study. Ancient Sources Abbreviation List Introduction: Refutations 1: Second-Century Challenges to the Death and Resurrection of Jesus 2: Hume 1: The Argument against Miracles 3: Hume 2: Reformulations of Hume 4: Nineteenth-Century Liberalism and Alternative Resurrection Theories 5: Nineteenth-Century Liberals versus Liberals on Alternative Theories 6: Nineteenth-Century Conservatives versus Liberals on Alternative Theories 7: Twentieth Century: Barth, Bultmann, and Beyond 8: Discrepancies and the Resurrection 9: Fraud Type 1: The Disciples Stole the Body 10: Fraud Type 2: Someone Else Stole the Body 11: The Swoon or Apparent Death Theory 12: Legend 1: Dying-and-Rising Gods 13: Legend 2: Historical Persons Resurrected? 14: Illumination and Illusion Hypotheses 15: Hallucination 16: Objective Visions 17: Resurrection Agnosticism 18: Five Reasons for the Failure of Naturalistic Theories 19: Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: The Talpiot Tomb Appendix 2: Proving Naturalism and Related Views? Appendix 3: Islam and the Resurrection of Jesus Author Index Subject Index Scripture Index