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The Resurrection and Modern Thought

by William John Sparrow-Simpson

Longmans, Green, 1911

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Contents

Preface                        (this page below)

Book  I: The Witness of the Twelve

      I.          Our Lord’s Predictions of His Resurrection

      II.         The Burial of Christ

      III.       The Empty Grave

      IV.       The Third Day

      V.        The Locality of the Appearances

      VI.       The Appearances of the Risen Master

      VII.      The Interpretation of the Appearances

 

Book  II: The Witness of S. Paul

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Contemporary Scholarship & The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection

BY: Dr. William Lane Craig

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
TALBOT DIVINITY SCHOOL

“Man,” writes Loren Eisley, “is the Cosmic Orphan.” He is the only creature in the universe who asks, Why? Other animals have instincts to guide them, but man has learned to ask questions. “Who am I?” he asks. “Why am I here? Where am I going?”

Ever since the Enlightenment, when modern man threw off the shackles of religion, he has tried to answer these questions without reference to God. But the answers that came back were not exhilarating, but dark and terrible. “You are an accidental by-product of nature, the result of matter plus time plus chance. There is no reason for your existence. All you face is death. Your life is but a spark in the infinite darkness, a spark that appears, flickers, and dies forever.”

Modern man thought that in divesting himself of God, he had freed himself from all that stifled and repressed him. Instead, he discovered that in killing God, he had also killed himself.

Against this background of the modern predicament, the traditional Christian hope of the resurrection takes on an even greater brightness and significance. It tells man t