Toto

SCI 221-0112: "Was Jesus Resurrected?"
January 1 – January 31, 2012

Instructor: Robert M. Price, PhD, author and professor of theology and scriptural studies, Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary

Instructor: John Shook, PhD, CFI director of education

This one-month, four-module course examines Christianity's claims about the divinity and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Course Topics:

• Skepticism towards the New Testament
• The implausibility of Jesus' resurrection
• Refuting theological defenders of resurrection
• The mythical and theological invention of the figure of Jesus

Readings: Students will purchase their own copies of Jesus is Dead (or via: amazon.co.uk) (American Atheist Press, 2007) by Robert M. Price. Supplemental papers and lectures will be made available online at no extra cost to students.

Register Here

eta: Jesus is Dead is now available as an ebook, which can be ordered on Price's homepage (scroll down through the book section.)

Vorkosigan

Thanks.

No Robots

Notice how they weasel from "was he resurrected?" to "was he even real?" A pretty underhanded bait-and-switch from the mythicist poobahs.

mountainman

Notice that a Core Principle of the Historical Method (shared by all positions) is that any given source may be forged or corrupted.

aspronot

I would have thought that one of the ways to show that there was no resurrection might be to address the possibility of the mythical and theological invention of the figure of Jesus. Where is the bait-and-switch?

Doug Shaver

Are you suggesting that questions about his actual existence are irrelevant to the question of whether he was resurrected?

aa5874

The very fact that there is a QUEST for the historical Jesus MUST imply that the present Jesus of the NT is NOT known to be a figure of history.

No Robots

I'm just saying that it's gutless for these posers to bury the controversial question under something else that isn't a problem for rationalists.

Toto

CFI has already sponsored a course on the historicity of Jesus, so the question isn't really hidden. Dr. Price's position on the issue is well known.

And it seems to be a big problem for a lot of people who claim to be rationalists, yet suffer from Mythicist Derangement Syndrome.

No Robots

That's what I'm saying: mythicism is a big problem for many rationalists, so it is sneaky to bring it into a course on the Resurrection, which most rationalists already reject.