As one character says to Strobel early in the movie, “If the resurrection of Jesus didn’t happen, (the Christian faith is) a house of cards.”Īs a religious studies professor specializing in the New Testament and early Christianity, I hold that Strobel’s book and the movie adaptation have not proven the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection for several reasons.Īre all of Strobel’s arguments relevant? The movie claims that its central focus is on the evidence for the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection. The movie attempts to make a compelling case for historical accuracy of Jesus’ resurrection. Last week, a motion picture adaptation of “The Case for Christ” was released. His book became one of the bestselling works of Christian apology (that is, a defense of the reasonableness and accuracy of Christianity) of all time. Strobel, however, was unable to refute these claims to his satisfaction, and he then converted to Christianity as well. Paramount among these was the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection, but other claims included the belief in Jesus as the literal Son of God and the accuracy of the New Testament writings. In 1998, Lee Strobel, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a graduate of Yale Law School, published “The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus.” Strobel had formerly been an atheist and was compelled by his wife’s conversion to evangelical Christianity to refute the key Christian claims about Jesus.
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