Faith, Facts, and the Resurrection of Jesus

From: Skeptic | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Stecher, Carl | Copyright information

Faith, Facts, and the Resurrection of Jesus A review of The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright. Fortress Press, 2004. 817 pp. $39. ISBN: 0-8006-2679-6

ALL RELIGIONS MAKE TRUTH claims. Judaism claims that the Lord God promised Abraham and his seed that the land of Canaan would be forever theirs, that God through Moses gave the Hebrews their sacred laws, and that one day the Messiah will come to establish God's Kingdom here on earth. Christianity claims that Jesus was the awa...

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