Ecclesiastical Minimalism

 

Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead? 

Do we all mean the same things by "really" and "rise"? 

Does historical logic prove Christianity to be true? 

Are some American evangelists really quite silly?

Has Andrew discovered the lost ending of St Mark's Gospel?

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Part 1: Conjuring tricks with bones. 

The hymn writer says that he knows that Jesus lives because he lives within his heart. Are there any other reasons for thinking so?

Part 2: Occam's razor

What would it take to convince you that someone had seen a ghost. 

Part 3: Is there a case for Easter? 
Lee Strobel's Christian apologetics considered.

Part 4: Proof and Faith

Are there things which can't be telt but can be felt?

Part 5: The Book that Refused to be Written
"Who Moved the Stone" reconsidered. 

Part 6: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus 
Three writers tell eleven different incidents in which Jesus' followers saw him alive after he died. What do those stories have in common and how do they differ? And why does Mark break off in mid-sentence?

Part 7: Hey, Kid - It Ain't That Kind Of Movie...
What is the most sensible way of reading these eleven stories?

Part 8: The Bishop of Woolworths
Is God up there, out there, down here, or nowhere in particular?

Part 9: "In a very real sense"

"The First Easter: What Really Happened": can modernists and demythologisers offer a roadmap? 

Part 10: "A very little man"
An experiment in exegesis.