Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I: General Background Evidence
1: Principles for weighing evidence
2: God's reasons for Incarnation
3: The life required of an incarnate God
Part II: Prior Historical Evidence
4: The Historical Sources
5: The life and moral teaching of Jesus
6: Jesus implied his divinity
7: Jesus taught his atonement
8: Jesus founded a church
Part III: Posterior Historical Evidence
9: The appearance of the risen Jesus
10: The empty tomb, and the observance of Sunday
11: Rival theories of what happened
12: The significance of the Resurrection
Part IV: Conclusion
13: The Balance of Probability
Appendix: Formalizing the argument
Index

Reviews

... earnest, powerful book ... worth the perseverance it demands ... Professor Swinburne's argument develops into a compelling commentary on the New Testament, its writers or compilers, and their experiences. Contemporary Review ... well-organised, precise, rigorous and unevasive ... read the book one will learn much. The Tablet Swinburne's book is densely argued. He writes with great clarity, explaining carefully any technical language that he uses. This book often demands close attention from the reader, but it remains accessible. It's argument is breathtaking in its simplicity and scope, and it offers point after point which preachers and teachers might use as pegs on which to hang expository material in sermons or in other contexts ... this book is an outstanding tour de force which offers much to those who would proclaim the resurrection today. Church of England Newspaper