{"id":2229,"date":"2017-04-20T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/resurreccion-que-dicen-los-eruditos\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:50:41","slug":"resurreccion-que-dicen-los-eruditos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/resurreccion-que-dicen-los-eruditos\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection: What are Scholars Saying? A Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Resurrection: What are Scholars Saying?<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Gary Habermas\u00a0has coined a method to show the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus called &#8220;The Minimal Facts&#8221; approach to the resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These facts are used by Habermas for three main reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vast majority of scholars accept these facts as historical.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are well established by the historical method.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The only explanation that can account for the existence of all these facts is the bodily resurrection of Jesus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Actually, Habermas uses about 11 or 12 minimal facts but the resurrection can be demonstrated using only about 3 or 4. Here we will include the 6 facts\u00a0that fulfill the requirement of being accepted by most scholars. These facts are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The disciples had experiences that they thought were actual appearances of the risen Jesus.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The disciples were thoroughly transformed, even being willing to die for this belief.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The apostolic proclamation of the resurrection began very early, when the church was in its infancy.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>James, the brother of Jesus and a former skeptic, became a Christian due to an experience that he believed was an appearance of the risen Jesus.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Saul (Paul), the church persecutor, became a Christian due to an experience that he believed was an appearance of the risen Jesus.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Habermas knows this because he has traced about\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garyhabermas.com\/articles\/southeastern_theological_review\/minimal-facts-methodology_08-02-2012.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3400 s<\/a>ources\u00a0including atheist,\u00a0agnostic, and other critical scholars in French, English and German. Often when I talk to skeptics, I am challenged to provide these sources. <strong><em>This brief serves to show a representative sample of these\u00a0sources <\/em><\/strong>(also see below for another related list)<strong>.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taken\u00a0from\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Risen-Jesus-Future-Hope\/dp\/0742532879\/ref=pd_sim_b_7?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=10F3ZCK7BH2Q1FZR4CM9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Risen Jesus and Future Hope<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Gary Habermas. Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rudolph Bultmann, <em>Theology of the New Testament<\/em>, 2 vols., trans. Kendrick Grobel (New York: Scribner\u2019s<br \/>\nSons, 1951, 1955), 1:44-46, 52, 60, 80-83.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Tillich, <em>Systematic Theology<\/em>, 3 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), 2:153-58.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Hick, <em>Death and Eternal Life<\/em> (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994), 171-77<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gunther Bomkamm, <em>Jesus of Nazareth<\/em>, trans. Irene and Fraser McLuskey with James M. Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1960), 179-86.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Helmut Koester, <em>Introduction to the New Testament<\/em>, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), 2:84., 2:84-86, 100.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Karl Barth, <em>Church Dogmatics<\/em>, 13 vols., ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. E Torrance (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1961), vol. 4, part 1,334-36,351-53.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emil Brunner, <em>Dogmatics<\/em>, 3 vols., trans. Olive Wyon (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1950-79), 2363-78.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">J\u00fcrgen Moltmann, <em>Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implication of a Christian Eschatology<\/em>, trans. James W. Leitch (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), 165-66, 172, 197-202.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">H. Dodd, \u201cAppearances of the Risen Christ: An Essay in Form-Criticism of the Gospels,\u201d in <em>More New Testament Essays<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1968), 124-25, 13 1-33.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Norman Perrin, <em>Resurrection according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke<\/em> (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977), 78-84.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John A. T. Robinson, <em>Can We Trust the New Testament?<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1977), 113-29.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reginald H. Fuller, <em>Formation of the Resurrection Narratives<\/em>, rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980), 27-49.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Grant, <em>Jesus: An Historian\u2019s Review of the Gospels<\/em> (New York: Scribner, 1977), 174-79.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus: God and Man, 2nd ed., trans. Lewis L. Wilkins and Duane A. Priebe (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977), 88-106.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ulrich Wilckens, <em>Resurrection: Biblical Testimony to the Resurrection: An Historical Examination and Explanation<\/em>, trans. A. M. Stewart (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1977), 6-16, 112-14.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Joachim Jeremias, \u201cEaster: The Earliest Tradition and the Earliest Interpretation,\u201d <em>New Testament Theology: The Proclamation of Jesus<\/em>, trans. John Bowden (New York: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 1971), 300-311.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wemer Georg Kummel, <em>The Theology of the New Testament: According to its Major Witnesses: Jesus-Paul-John<\/em> (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1973), 102-5.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Raymond E. Brown, <em>The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press, 1973), 80-82, 128.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leonard Goppelt, \u201cThe Easter Kerygma in the New Testament,\u201d in <em>The Easter Message<\/em> Today, 35-37, 43-53.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elaine Pagels, <em>The Gnostic Gospels<\/em> (New York: Random House, 1979), 3-12.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marcus Barth and Verne H. Fletcher, <em>Acquittal by Resurrection<\/em> (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964), part 1 (Barth), 11-15,37-39.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Van Buren, <em>The Secular Meaning of the Gospel: Based on an Analysis of its Language<\/em> (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 126-34<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">William Wand, Christianity<em>: A Historical Religion?<\/em> (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1972) 51, 59, 84, 93, 108.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">M. Hunter, <em>Jesus: Lord and Saviour<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eardmans, 1976), 98-107.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">M. Ramsey, <em>The Resurrection of Christ<\/em> (London: Collins, 1961), 35-45.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T. Jones, A History of Western Philosophy, 5 vols, 2nd ed., (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969), 2:34-35, 39.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">George Eldon Ladd, <em>I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1975), 36-43, 93, 109-11.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Daniel Fuller, Easter <em>Faith and History<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1965), 208-29<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Helmut Thielicke, \u201cThe Resurrection Kerygma,\u201d in <em>The Easter Message Today<\/em>, trans. Salvator Attanasio and Darrell Likens Guder (London: Thomas Nelson, 1964), 59-62, 86-91.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grant Osborne, <em>The Resurrection Narratives: A Redactional Study<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1984), 231-33, 276-77, 281-88.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pheme Perkins, <em>Resurrection: New Testament Witness and Contemporary Reflection<\/em> (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984), 84-95, 196-210.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Howard Clark Kee, <em>What Can We Know about Jesus?<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990),1-2,21-23,60-61,85-86,90.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pinchas Lapide, <em>The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective <\/em>(Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983),91-99, 125-31<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Sheehan, <em>The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity<\/em> (New York: Random House, 1986), 101-18.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Barnett, <em>Jesus and the Logic of History<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1997), 115-34, 159-61.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">William Lane Craig, <em>Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus<\/em> (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), 36-38, 53-82, 163-96, 379-420.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">P. Sanders, <em>The Historical Figure of Jesus<\/em> (London: Penguin Books, 1993), 10-13, 125-26, 133-36, 277-81.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gerald O\u2019Collins, <em>Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental and Systematic Examination of Christ\u2019s Resurrection<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press,1987), 99-147.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Luke Timothy Johnson, <em>The Real Jesus<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996), 110-22, 133-36.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Shelby Spong, <em>Resurrection: Myth or Reality?<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994), 47-56, 239-43, 255-60.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Drane, <em>Introducing the New Testament<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986), 77-107.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Funk, <em>Honest to Jesus<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996), 33-40, 260, 267-7.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Murray Harris, <em>Raised Immortal: Resurrection and Immortality in the New Testament<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983), 5-11, 60.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gerd Ludemann y Alf Ozen, <em>What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approah to the Resurrection<\/em>, trans. John Bowden (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995), 9-7, 102-5, 125-34.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thonvald Lorenzen, <em>Resurrection and Discipleship: Interpretive Models, Biblical Reflections, Theological Consequences<\/em> (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1995), 13 1-36, 141-44, 184-87.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Neville Clark, <em>Interpreting the Resurrection<\/em> (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967), 89-101.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul L. Maier, <em>In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991), 164-88, 204-5.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Dominic Crossan, <em>The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1991), 372-75, 397-98.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Dominic Crossan, <em>Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1994), 135, 145, 154, 165, 190.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stephen T. Davis, <em>Risen Indeed<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993), 15, 177-85.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bart D. Ehrman, <em>Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 227-31.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Meier, <em>A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus<\/em>, 3 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1987-2001), 3:67-71, 146-47, 234-35, 251-52, 625.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">J. M. Wedderburn, <em>Beyond Resurrection<\/em> (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999), 4-15,47, 113-17, 188.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T. Wright, <em>The New Testament and the People of God<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), 111,353-54,400-401.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T. Wright, <em>Jesus and the Victory of God<\/em>, vol. 2 <em>of Christian Origins and the Question of God<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 109-12, 480,487,551-52,659.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another related list is a sample of scholars, \u00a0again, including atheists, agnostics, and other non-Christians who believe that the disciples had experiences that led them to conclude that they had appearances of the Risen Jesus, whether or not this happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The list of scholars who affirm or strongly imply\u00a0this as historical is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Helmut Koester, <em>Introduction to the New Testament<\/em>, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), 284.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Goulder, \u201cThe Baseless Fabric,\u201d in <em>Resurrection Reconsidered<\/em>, ed. Gavin D\u2019Costa (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1996), 48.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marcus Borg, \u201cThinking about Easter,\u201d <em>Bible Review<\/em> 10 (1994): 15.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Dominic Crossan, <em>Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1994), 190.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Funk, <em>Honest to Jesus<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996), 40, 266.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Roy W. Hoover, \u201cA Contest between Orthodoxy and Veracity,\u201d in <em>Jesus\u2019s Resurrection: Fact or Figment<\/em>, 131, 92-97, 111, 141.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rudolf Pesch, <em>The Resurrection of Jesus as History<\/em> 47\u201cZur Entstehung des Glaubens an die Auferstehung Jesu: Ein neuer Versach,\u201d Freiburger Zeitschrift fur Philosophie <em>und <\/em>Theologie 30 (1983): 87.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anton Vogtle in Vogtle and Rudolf Pesch, Wie <em>kam <\/em>es <em>zum <\/em>Osterglauben! (Dusseldorf, Germany: Patmos- Verlag, 1975), 85-98.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Galvin, \u201cResurrection as Theologia Crucis Jew: The Foundational Christology of Rudolf Pesch,\u201d <em>Theological Studies<\/em> 38 (1977): 521-23.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hans Conzelmann<em>, I Corinthians<\/em> (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), 258-66.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Norman Perrin, <em>The Resurrection according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke<\/em> (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977), 80-83.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gerd Ludemann in collaboration with Alf Ozen, <em>What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approach to the Resurrection<\/em>, trans. John Bowden (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995), 37, 50, 66.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jack Kent, <em>The Psychological Origins of the Resurrection Myth<\/em> (London: Open Gate Press, 1999), 18-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">James Keller, \u201cResponse to Davis,\u201d <em>Faith and Philosophy<\/em> 7 (1990): 114.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hans Werner Bartsch, \u201clnhalt und Funktion des Urchristlichen Osterglaubens,\u201d <em>New Testament Studies<\/em> 26 (1980): 180, 194-95.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">James M. Robinson, \u201cJesus from Easter to Valentinus (or to the Apostles\u2019 Creed),\u201d Journal of Bibilical Literature 101 (1982): 8, 20.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A. Wells, <em>Did Jesus Exist?<\/em> (London: Pemberton, 1986), 32, 207.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Martin, <em>The Case against Christianity<\/em> (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991), 83, 90.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Shelby Spong, <em>The Easter Moment<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987), 51-53, 173.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Sheehan, <em>The First Coming:<\/em> <em>How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity <\/em>(New York: Random House, 1986), 91.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">K. Elliott, \u201cThe First Easter,\u201d <em>History Today<\/em> 29 (1979): 209-10, 220.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">J. M. Wedderburn, <em>Beyond Resurrection<\/em> (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999), 47, 188.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Karl Rahner, <em>Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity<\/em>, trans. William V. Dych (New York: Seabury Press, 1978), 265, 277.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wolfhart Pannenberg, \u201cDie Auferstehung Jesu: Historie und Theologie,\u201d Zeitschrift <em>fur <\/em>Theologie und Kirche 91 (1994): 320-23.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jurgen Moltmann, <em>Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology<\/em>, trans. James W. Leitch (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), 172-73.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Raymond E. Brown, <em>The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press, 1973), 125-29.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">James D. G. Dunn,<em> The Evidence for Jesus<\/em> (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster Press, 1985), 75.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Luke Timothy Johnson, <em>The Real Jesus<\/em> (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996), 136.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Walter Kasper, <em>Jesus the Christ<\/em>, new ed., trans. V. Green (Mahweh, N. J. Paulist Press, 1976), 124-25.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stephen T. Davis, <em>Risen Indeed<\/em> (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993), 182.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">E.B Cranfield, \u201cThe Resurrection of Jesus Christ,\u201d <em>Expository Times<\/em> 101 (1990), 169.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hugo Staudinger, \u201cThe Resurrection of Jesus Christ as Saving Event and as \u2018Object\u2019 of Historical Research,\u201d Scottish Journal of Theology 36 (1983), 312, 318-20.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rowan Williams, <em>Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel<\/em> (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1982), 97, 117-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Alsup, <em>(The Post-Resurrection Appearance Stories of the Gospel Tradition: A History-of-Tradition Analysis with Text-Synopsis<\/em>, Calwer Theologische Monographien 5 [Stuttgart, Germany: Calwer Verlag, 1975], 55), 274.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reginald H. Fuller, <em>The Formation of the Resurrection Narratives<\/em>, rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980), 47-49, 181.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jacob Kremer, <em>Die Osterevangelien-Geschichten um Geschichte<\/em>, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart, Germany: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1981), esp. 153-55.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ben F. Meyer, <em>The Aims of Jesus<\/em> (London: SCM Press, 1979), 60.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Meier, <em>A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus<\/em>, 3 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1987-2001), 3:70, 235, 252.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus (London: Penguin Books, 1993), 10-13, 278-80.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">N. T. Wright, \u201cChristian Origins and the Resurrection of Jesus: The Resurrection of Jesus as a Historical Problem,\u201d Sewanee Theological Review 41 (1998): 118.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Joseph Dore, \u201cCroire en la Resurrection de Jesus-Christ,\u201d Etudes 356 (1982), 532.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Francis Schussler Fiorenza, \u201cThe Resurrection of Jesus and Roman Catholic Fundamental Theology,\u201d in <em>The Resurrection<\/em>, 238, 243-47.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gerald O\u2019Collins, <em>Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental and Systematic Examination of Christ\u2019s Resurrection<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press,1987), 118-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">William Lane Craig, <em>Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus<\/em> (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), esp. part 3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John A. T. 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Paul Copan (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1998), 131-32.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Pilch, \u201cAppearances of the Risen Jesus in Cultural Context,\u201d <em>Biblical Theology Bulletin<\/em> 28 (1998): 59.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adrian Thatcher, \u201cResurrection and Rationality,\u201d in <em>The Resurrection of Jesus Christ<\/em>, 180.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Traugott Holtz, \u201cKenntnis von Jesus und Kenntnis Jesu: Eine Skizze zum Verhaltnis zwischen 48 Chapter One historisch-philologisher Erkenntnis und historisch-theologischem Verstandnis,\u201d <em>Theologische Literaturzeitung<\/em> 104 (1979): 10.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter Stuhlmacher, <em>Was geschah auf Golgatha? Zur Heilsbedeutung von Kreuz, Tod und Auferweckung Jesu<\/em> (Stuttgart, Germany: Calwer Verlag, 1998), 58-64.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurrection: What are Scholars Saying? Dr. Gary Habermas\u00a0has coined a method to show the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus called &#8220;The Minimal Facts&#8221; approach to the resurrection. These facts are used by Habermas for three main reasons: The vast majority of scholars accept these facts as historical. 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