Mobile Ed: CS151 Philosophy of History (8 hour course - audio)
Overview
Philosophy of History (CS151) establishes a theory of history and then applies it to a historical investigation of the resurrection of Jesus. It provides an extensive and detailed consideration of the many issues related to historical investigation—including the uncertainty of historical knowledge, the influence of one’s worldview in historiography, the historian’s right to investigate miracle claims, burden of proof, and arguments to the best explanation.
These lectures walk through this strictly-controlled historical method to investigate the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. You’ll learn the relevant biblical and non-biblical sources which are identified and evaluated according to their historical reliability. Finally, the course weighs two prominent hypotheses that account for the historical bedrock according to the historical method set forth above. The bodily resurrection of Jesus is shown to be a near-certain historical probability, and thus, a solid basis for one’s faith in God—a faith that produces an eternal hope in the resurrection life.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Theory of History
- Second-Guessing and the Challenge of History
- Defining Terms and Challenges to Knowing the Past: Part 1
- Challenges to Knowing the Past: Part 2
- Transcending Horizons
- The Role of a Consensus
- The Uncertainty of Historical Knowledge
- Postmodernist History
- Problems with Postmodernist History
- Three Views of History, Historical Facts, and Burden of Proof
- Theory and Historians
- What Historians Do
Unit 2: Method to History
- Arguments to the Best Explanation
- Arguments from Statistical Inferences
- Criteria of Authenticity
- Application of the Criteria of Authenticity to the Historical Jesus
Unit 3: Miracles and the Historian
- Defining Miracles
- David Hume and the Impossibility of Miracles
- The Principle of Analogy and Philosophical Assumptions
- Bart Ehrman and the Reliability of the Gospels
- Contradictions
- Most Probable Explanation
- James D. G. Dunn, the Interpretation of Data, and Burden of Proof
- Preponderance of Evidence and a Turning Point for Historians
Unit 4: Historical Sources and the Resurrection of Jesus
- Relevant Sources
- Canonical Gospels
- Matthew’s and Luke’s Use of Mark
- Reliability of the Gospels and the Letters of Paul
- Q and Speeches in Antiquity
- Speeches in Acts and Oral Formulas in Paul
- Origin and Reliability of the Oral Tradition in 1 Corinthians 15:3–7
- Josephus
- Tacitus, Mara bar Serapion, and Thallus
- Lucian, Celsus, Babylonian Talmud, and the Apostolic Fathers
- Gospel of Thomas
- Gospel of Peter, Gospel of Judas, Revelation Dialogues, and Pseudo Mark
Unit 5: Historical Bedrock Pertaining to Jesus’ Fate
- Jesus’ Life and Death
- Jesus’ Death by Crucifixion
- Appearances to the Disciples
- Three-Day Motif and the Nature of the Appearances: Part 1
- Legitimization of Authority and Nature of the Appearances: Part 2
- Gospel of Mark and Resurrection Appearances
- Appearances to Women, the Emmaus Disciples, and the Doubters
- The Apostles’ Testimony and Appearance to Paul: Part 1
- The Fate of Paul and Appearance to Paul: Part 2
- Paul’s View of the Resurrection: Part 1
- Paul’s View of the Resurrection: Part 2
- Paul’s View of the Resurrection: Part 3
- Appearance to James
- The Empty Tomb and Historical Bedrock
- B-Grade Facts
Unit 6: Weighing Hypotheses
- Michael Goulder’s Hallucination Hypothesis
- Analysis and Concerns of Goulder’s Hypothesis
- Marian Apparitions and Weighing Goulder’s Hypothesis
- Resurrection Hypothesis
- Evidence for a Supernatural Element in Reality
- Concluding Thoughts
Conclusion
- Summary of the Course
Product Details
- Title: CS151 Philosophy of History (audio)
- Instructor: Mike R. Licona
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Audio
- Length: 8 hours
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Dr. Mike Licona is associate professor of theology at Houston Baptist University. He holds a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Pretoria, which he earned with distinction and the highest mark.
Dr. Licona was interviewed for Lee Strobel’s book The Case for the Real Jesus and he appeared in Strobel’s video The Case for Christ. He is the author of numerous books, including The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, Paul Meets Muhammad: A Christian-Muslim Debate on the Resurrection, co-author of the award-winning book The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, and co-editor of Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Science. His next book will concern ancient compositional devices resulting in discrepancies in the Gospels and Plutarch’s Lives. Dr. Licona is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He has spoken on more than 70 university campuses and has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs.