Strobel interviews scholars on the medical causes of Jesus’ death, the empty tomb, witnesses to Jesus’ resurrected body, and any circumstantial evidence to the resurrection. Chapters 11-14 (four interviews) research the resurrection. Strobel interviews scholars about Jesus’ identity, Jesus’ psychological mindset, Jesus and the attributes of God, and Jesus and the Messianic prophecies. Chapters 7-10 (four interviews) analyze Jesus himself. Strobel interviews scholars on the origins and reliability of the New Testament (especially the gospels), the manuscripts of the New Testament, the external sources to the New Testament, and archaeology. Chapters 1-6 (five interviews) examine the record about Jesus. The interviewees were scholars in the fields of Scripture, medicine, and psychology, to name a few. In between are 14 chapters comprised of 13 separate interviews that Strobel conducted.

This book has an introduction and conclusion. Yet there is more to this book than that. This is an apologetics book about Jesus Christ: “But who was he really? Who did he claim to be? And is there any credible evidence to back up his assertions?” (16). It is almost as if Lee Strobel had this quote in mind as he wrote his book. But he must ever keep in mind that his real business is not to demonstrate the truth of the Christian religion to the unbeliever, but to uncover the insincerity of unbelief, for all who reject Christianity do so, consciously or unconsciously, because of their evil will and not because of their pretended “intellectual honesty” ( Christian Dogmatics, I, 110). The Christian apologist is in a position to show any rational man, particularly if he have a well-trained mind, that after all it would be more reasonable to accept the claims of Christianity as true than to reject them as false. A word on the rational proofs for the Christian religion, as employed in apologetics.

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