Atheism and the Case Against Christ McCormick Matthew S.Paperback
Atheism and the Case Against Christ McCormick Matthew S.Paperback Hundreds of millions of people believe that Jesus came back from the dead. The author asks a number of probing questions: Is the…
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Atheism and the Case Against Christ McCormick Matthew S.Paperback
Hundreds of millions of people believe that Jesus came back from the dead. The author asks a number of probing questions: Is the evidence about Jesus as it has been relayed to us over the centuries of sufficient quantity and quality to justify belief in the resurrection? This cogent, forcefully argued book presents a decidedly unpopular view -namely, that the central tenet of Christianity, the resurrection of Jesus, is false.
What light does contemporary research about human rationality from the fields of behavioral economics, empirical psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy shed on the resurrection and religious belief? How can we accept the resurrection but reject magic at the Salem witch trials? Can we use contemporary research about the reliability of people's beliefs in the supernatural, miracles, and the paranormal to shed light on the origins of Christianity and other