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Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 6: Objections Based on the 4th Gospel

WHERE WE ARE AT In this series of posts I will defend the Survival Theory (TST) against the nine objections that Peter Kreeft puts forward in Chapter 8 of Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA).   Kreeft’s nine objections to TST can also be found in an online article at the Strange Notions website. Kreeft mistakenly takes Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 6: Objections Based on the 4th Gospel

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 4: The ‘Where Did Jesus Go?’ Objection

WHERE WE ARE AT In this series of posts I will defend the Survival Theory (TST) against the nine objections that Peter Kreeft puts forward in Chapter 8 of Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA).   Kreeft’s nine objections to TST can also be found in an online article at the Strange Notions website. Kreeft mistakenly takes Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 4: The ‘Where Did Jesus Go?’ Objection

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 3: The Deadliness of Roman Crucifixion

In this series of posts I will defend the Survival Theory (TST) against the nine objections that Peter Kreeft puts forward in Chapter 8 of Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA).   Kreeft’s nine objections to TST can also be found in an online article at the Strange Notions website. (NOTE: Kreeft mistakenly takes aim at the Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 3: The Deadliness of Roman Crucifixion

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 1: What is the Swoon Theory?

In Chapter 8 of his Handbook of Christian Apologetics (co-authored with Ronald Tacelli), Peter Kreeft attempts to disprove the Swoon Theory as part of an elimination-of-alternatives argument for the resurrection of Jesus.  Kreeft thinks that by disproving four skeptical theories, he can show that the Christian theory is true, that Jesus actually rose from the dead. Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 1: What is the Swoon Theory?

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – INDEX

Dr. Peter Kreeft believes there are only five possible theories about the alleged resurrection of Jesus, and the Conspiracy Theory (hereafter: TCT) is one of those theories: In Chapter 8 of his Handbook of Christian Apologetics (co-authored with Ronald Tacelli), Peter Kreeft attempts to disprove the Conspiracy Theory (TCT), as part of an elimination-of-alternatives argument for Defending the Conspiracy Theory – INDEX

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 6: More about Our Ignorance

According to Peter Kreeft, there are only five possible theories about the alleged resurrection of Jesus: The Conspiracy Theory (hereafter: TCT) is one of those five theories. Kreeft raises seven objections against TCT.  Objection #1 FAILS, because it makes various historical assumptions about the twelve apostles without providing any historical evidence for those assumptions. OUR Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 6: More about Our Ignorance

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 5: Our Ignorance of The Twelve

There are five different possible theories about the alleged resurrection of Jesus, according to Peter Kreeft: The Conspiracy Theory is one of the skeptical theories about the resurrection.  See Part 3 of this series for my clarification of the content of TCT. THE ABSENCE OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE In Part 4 of this series I replied Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 5: Our Ignorance of The Twelve

Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 2: Defining the Theory

Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA) was co-authored by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli.  In HCA, Kreeft attempts to prove that Jesus rose from the dead by disproving four skeptical theories related to the alleged resurrection of Jesus.  One of the skeptical theories that Kreeft attempts to disprove is called “The Conspiracy Theory” (which I will refer Defending the Conspiracy Theory – Part 2: Defining the Theory