Peter), the conversion of enemies such as Saul and the conversion of non-believers such as James, the brother of Jesus. The following masters thesis examines the evidence for and against the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth and considers three ways through which one can know the truthfulness of the resurrection, namely, through the testimony of the Holy Spirit, the witness of the Bible, and the historical evidence, including Jesus’ death, burial, the empty tomb, and the early disciples’ belief that they had seen appearances of Jesus resulting in their change from cowardice to martyrdom (i.e. This is a thorough study of arguably the key event in the formation of the Christian faith, and the basis of the Christian hope of eternal life.
Addressing writings from both within and outside of Christianity, it also demonstrates how a comparative religion approach might further illuminate the origins of Christianity. It addresses these hypotheses in detail, including sophisticated combinations of hallucination hypothesis with cognitive dissonance memory distortion and confirmation bias. Using a novel analytic framework, this book demonstrates that a logically exhaustive list of hypotheses concerning the claims of Jesus’ post-mortem appearances and the outcome of Jesus’ body can be formulated. It fills a gap in the literature by addressing these issues using a transdisciplinary approach involving historical-critical study of the New Testament, theology, analytic philosophy, psychology and comparative religion. This book provides an original and comprehensive assessment of the hypotheses concerning the origin of resurrection Christology. Loke is to be commended for an accessible and systematic approach to the resurrection of Jesus that helps the reader understand the full range of available options in considering the epistemic warrants for believing in the foundational claim of the Christian faith.’ –The Journal of Theological Studies (Oxford University Press) Thanks to the generous funding provided by my university, this book has been made open-access.
‘By the end of Andrew Loke’s excellent book, he concludes that the most rational viewpoint is that the original percipients saw Jesus himself…. "One of the best Analytic Philosophy ebooks of all time" - BookAuthority.
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