24 April 2003 by Bob
Where’s Hume when you need him?
New Book Defends Gospel Account of Resurrection Story
Wright, 54, said that the best history can do for any ancient event is a “high probability” that it occurred. He argues that the Easter story qualifies as true because all proposed alternatives fail to explain the early power of Christianity.The oldest alternative, mentioned in Matthew 28, was the claim that Jesus’s body was stolen from the tomb. Wright notes that New Testament writers presented that possibility even at the risk of “putting ideas into people’s heads.” They did so, he says, precisely because skeptics were trying to explain why the tomb was empty.
