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Jesus Under Fire : Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus by Michael J. Wilkins, James Porter Moreland is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Although primarily conceived as a reply to the research of the liberal-minded Jesus Seminar, the articles in "Jesus Under Fire" are written as more general defenses of the historical claims of traditional Christianity, so one does not need to be very familiar with the work of the Jesus Seminar to find them interesting. The general perspective of the book fits well within the viewpoint of contemporary evangelical Christian apologetics. Over the last couple of decades or so, professional apologists for traditional Christianity have been clustering around three central arguments in support of their beliefs: a re-formulation of the Cosmological Argument (the need for a First Cause to explain the origin of the universe) that accepts Big Bang cosmology; a re-vamped version of the Argument From Design that points to the supposed "fine tuning" of the universe to support human life and also favors "intelligent design" in biology; and a renewed Argument from Miracles that uses historical methodology to support the reality of Jesus' resurrection and other deeds. The authors of "Jesus Under Fire" present all three of these arguments, but they focus most of all on the historical arguments in

Who reads Jesus Under Fire : Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus?

Author

Michael J. Wilkins, James Porter Moreland

Publisher

Zondervan Academic

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780310877134

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (216 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14