Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead remains perhaps the
most critical and contentious issue in Christianity. Until now,
argument has centred upon the veracity of explicit New Testament
accounts of the events following Jesus's crucifixion, often ending
in deadlock. In Richard Swinburne's approach, though, ascertaining
the probable truth of the Resurrection requires a much broader
approach to the nature of God and to the life and teaching of
Jesus. The Resurrection can only have occurred if God intervened in
history to raise to life a man dead for 36 hours. It is therefore
crucial not only to weigh the evidence of natural theology for the
existence of a God who has some reason so to intervene, but also to
discover whether the life and teaching of Jesus show him to be
uniquely the kind of person whom God would have raised Swinburne
argues that God has reason to interfere in history by becoming
incarnate, and that it is highly improbable that we would find the
evidence we do for the life and teaching of Jesus, as well as the
evidence from witnesses to his empty tomb and later appearances, if
Jesus was not God incarnate and did not rise from the dead.
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