Category: Jesus’ Resurrection
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Was Jesus’ Resurrection Accurately Remembered?
Handout Is Memory Reliable? Different Elements of Memory Transience The Implications of Transience A Forgetting Curve The Period Between Events and Writing Book Lower (Bernier) Lower (Robinson) Middle (Harnack) Higher (Sturdy) Matthew 45–59 50 70–75 130 Mark 42–45 45 65–73 80 Luke 59 60 80–95 110 John 60–70 65 80–110 140 Acts 62 62 80–95…
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Evidence for the Resurrection: An Interview with Tyler McNabb and David Graieg
1. Many New Testament scholars have abandoned the traditional criteria in support of memory studies. Can you explain why this is the case and how one would use memory studies in biblical studies? There are still scholars who advocate for the criteria of authenticity, such as Burr, Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond, 2023,…
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Memory and the Interpretative Options of Jesus’ Resurrection
A summary of the forthcoming journal article “Resurrection Misremembered? The Interpretative Options Parts 1&2” with JETS 2025. Overview What is a Memory Approach? Issues to Consider Options for Jesus’ Resurrection See Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach, 2020. Historical Sources A Defeater: Fictional Genre? See Andrew Judd, Modern Genre…
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A Memory Approach to Jesus’ Resurrection
Handout What is a Memory Approach? Different Uses of a Memory Approach Why this Subject Matters? A Definition of Memory Is Memory Reliable? The Elements of a Memory Approach Transience The Implications of Transience Forgetting Curves Passivism and constructivism Examples of the active nature of memory The Implications of Passivism and Constructivism Theories of Remembering…
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An Overview of the Book Resurrection Remembered
The Aim of the Book Why this Subject Matters? What is a Memory Approach? What about Social Memory? Is Memory Reliable? The Elements of a Memory Approach Passivism and constructivism Examples of the active nature of memory The Implications Passivism and Constructivism Theories of Remembering An Epistemic Theory of Remembering The Implications of an Epistemic…
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Worldview Australia Talk: Jesus’ Resurrection
Handout Why it Matters? How Can We Know? Scripture Is this circular reasoning? See also: Mark 15:15–16:8; Matt 27:26–28:20; Luke 23:32–24:53; John 19:1–20:31; 1 Cor 6:14; 15; 2 Cor 4:14; Gal 1:1; Rom 1:4; 4:24–25; 6:4–5, 9; 7:4; 8:11; 10:9; Eph 1:20; Col 2:12; 1 Thess 1:10; Phil 3:10–11; 2 Tim 2:8; Acts 1:22; 2:24,…
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Apologetics for scientists: The existence of God, the problem of evil, miracles, and evolution
Handout What is apologetics? Apologetics is not primary An overview of apologetics Reformed Epistemology Evidence that God Exists See: Dougherty, Trent, and Jerry Walls, eds. Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project. 2018. Define “God” The Value of Arguments The Burden of Proof WLC’s Cosmological Argument A Note on Argumentation WLC’s Teleological…
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