Thinking Critically about the Resurrection of Jesus, Volume 1: DRAFT Chapters

 I have been working on this book for over seven years[1]:

Thinking Critically about the Resurrection of Jesus, Volume 1

Previously, this book was divided into ten chapters, and it had grown to over 400 pages (of single-spaced text).

Because this book is filled with careful critical analysis of arguments and careful evaluation of arguments, I believe that most people would feel overwhelmed by such a book being over 400 pages long.  

To shorten the book, I have decided to focus the first volume on just one of the two main issues that were covered in my ten draft chapters: The Failure of Peter Kreeft's Case for the resurrection of Jesus in his Handbook of Christian Apologetics.  

I have removed three chapters from Volume 1, and will use those three chapters as material for Volume 2 of this series. Volume 2 will focus on this idea: The Resuscitation of the Swoon Theory.   That leaves Volume 1 with just seven chapters, and shortens this first volume to a much more reasonable 257 pages (of single-spaced text).

Here are the current DRAFT chapters of 

Thinking Critically about the Resurrection of Jesus 

Volume 1: The Failure of Peter Kreeft's Case

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Careful Argument Analysis

Chapter 3: Objections to the Swoon Theory Based on John

Chapter 4: Objections to the Swoon Theory Based on Other Gospels

Chapter 5: Objections to the Swoon Theory NOT Based on the Gospels

Chapter 6: More than Five Theories

Chapter 7: Conclusion

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END NOTES

1. For example, in April of 2019, I published the first post of a series of posts about objections by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli to the Conspiracy Theory:

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 1

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – INDEX

In June of 2019, I published the first post of a series about their objections to the Swoon Theory: 

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 1

Defending the Swoon Theory – INDEX

In May of 2021, I published a post indicating that I planned to call my first book Thinking Critically about the Resurrection of Jesus, and that this book would focus on Peter Kreeft's case for the resurrection of Jesus:

My First Book