Description:
In On the Resurrection, Volume 2: Refutations, Gary Habermas offers detailed analyses and rebuttals of the alternate theories surrounding Jesus's resurrection. This is the second volume of four in his magnum opus, On the Resurrection.
Review Quotes:
"Habermas's argument from evidential near-death experiences and a likely afterlife to resurrection appearances of some sort is a useful addition to the literature."
--Dale C. Allison Jr., Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary
"In volume 1 of this four-volume series, Gary Habermas has already produced a masterful defense of the resurrection of Jesus with his comprehensive collection of evidence. In volume 2, he responds to all the major and quite a few minor alternative explanations for the resurrection with grace and truth with level-headed reason. No doubt there will continue to be critics who simply ignore or casually skim and brush off this opus giganticum, and there will be those who follow them. Anyone wishing to credibly defend a skeptical position, however, will have to engage and then refute this work in considerable detail. I do not currently see how this would be possible."
--Craig L. Blomberg, distinguished professor emeritus of New Testament, Denver Seminary
"This book presents a monumental scholarly debate on the validity of vision for the resurrection of Jesus in Western Christianity."
--John Dominic Crossan, emeritus professor of biblical studies, DePaul University
"This second volume of Habermas's magisterial treatment of Jesus's resurrection thoroughly and persuasively engages objections, applies relentless logic, and challenges critics to be evenhanded in their evaluations. This series confirms Habermas's status as the leading voice among an increasing number of eminent scholars openly affirming the strong evidence for Jesus's resurrection."
--Craig S. Keener, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
"Gary Habermas has made it his main mission in his scholarly work to focus on the resurrection of Jesus and its importance. After many decades of hard work and detailed scholarship, he is now producing a four-volume series that is and will be, to my knowledge, the most detailed treatment of this crucial subject in Christian history. While the first volume deals at length with the reality and factuality of Jesus's resurrection from many angles, this second volume deals with the attempts ancient and modern to refute the idea that the historical Jesus was raised bodily from death in Jerusalem in antiquity. This volume deals with both ancient and modern attempts to deny the reality of miracles in general and the reality of Jesus's bodily resurrection in particular. This is a resource that every Christian college and seminary library should have on its shelf because it promises to be the most complete and compelling treatment of this subject available."
--Ben Witherington III, Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
"Professor Gary Habermas has made studying the resurrection of Jesus Christ his life's work. Probably no one else on the planet has researched or documented the relevant arguments in greater detail."
--Peter Williams, principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge, United Kingdom