Mercyhouse University

Episode 2 of Part 2 of our course, Can We Trust the Gospels? Austin leads us through a discussion of what some call the "Minimal Facts" case for the resurrection. We talk about both why it's important to know that Jesus really rose from the dead, and how we can know that he did. Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ls-TiYE0OPCab_MsXzVpedxXdMmz4tHeMacCNhObYKo/edit?usp=sharing In this episode, one of us says that apparitions of deceased people are evidence that the deceased is dead, rather than evidence that they have been resurrected, attributing this point to N. T. Wright. Though the thought is indeed Wright's (pp. 690-1 in The Resurrection of the Son of God), nevertheless, this particular way of putting Wright's point is due to William Lane Craig (e.g. in this video clip: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/videos/short-videos/why-is-the-hallucination-hypothesis-of-the-resurrection-implausible/).