The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics

by Jonathan Mumme

Publisher:

1517 Publishing

, 2016

Overview

In the first century, the resurrection fact faced both Jewish and Greek audiences with a challenge, the challenge of a new reality: Christ, the risen Lord. Since facts are by definition “something that happened” and this happening was witnessed, proclaimed, and recorded, the fact stands for all generations. In answering critics, a defense of the resurrection consists not only of a response by way of negation (e.g., Christianity is not this), but also through positive affirmations (this is Christianity). In this book, the reader will find both. However, it is our hope that the final word retained would be the one that stands for something rather than against something. Together, our words stand for something positive, not negative; namely the good news that the one true God has now taken charge of the world, in and through Jesus and His death and resurrection.

Key Features

• Explains how the resurrection fact, faced both Jewish and Greek audiences with a challenge.
• Provides a defense of the resurrection that consists of positive affirmations.
• Shares the good news that the one true God has now taken charge of the world.

Praise for the Print Edition

The Resurrection Fact is a handy volume with essays from a number of contributors that present a succinct case for Jesus' resurrection followed by critical assessments of numerous proposals posited by contemporary critics, such as Bart Ehrman, Robert Price, John Dominic Crossan, and others. Readers will find these essays both informative, helpful, and even entertaining at times.

-Michael R. Licona, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Theology Houston Baptist University

Product Details

• Title: The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics
• Author: Jonathan Mumme
• Publisher: 1517 Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 248
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781945500558, 1945500557
• Resource ID: LLS:RSRRCTNFCTCRTCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T15:50:51Z

About Jonathan Mumme

Dr. theol. Jonathan Mumme (University of Tübingen, 2013) is Associate Professor of Theology at Concordia University Wisconsin. Previously he acted as Tutor for Systematic Theology and Church History at Westfield House (Cambridge). Mumme serves as an editor for Lutherische Beiträge and as co-chair of the Marquette Ecumenical Martin Luther Working Group. His primary areas of research are ecclesiology, the theology of Luther, and the intersection of theology and society.

Mumme has contributed to numerous scholarly works and has been published in Pro Ecclesia, Concordia Theological Journal, Lutherische Beiträge, and Modern Reformation. He has been the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Program and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. In 2017 he was awarded a top-tier faculty award for overall teaching by Concordia University Wisconsin.