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wavy_wonder1 · 11-03-2009, 02:39 PM

I've read Price's and Lowder's Empty Tomb long ago, and Carrier contributed several essays. For those who've read it of course, how does Not the Impossible Faith compare? Is it mostly a rehash of the material in the Empty Tomb? Is it substantially expanded enough so that purchasing it would be worth it?

I like Carrier, but I don't want to waste money.

Finis,
ELB

John Kesler · 11-03-2009, 04:40 PM

Here are Carrier's own words:

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Part of my original contract included the guarantee that my initial work would be available to the public for free. So Was Christianity? will remain on the Secular Web, free to all. The print edition, now titled Not the Impossible Faith (to rif on Holding's title), includes various changes, to the point that it certainly supercedes the online version (it's the edition I will cite and reference from now on), but nothing so significant that you "need" to buy the book if you're content with the online text.

The online version is here.

wavy_wonder1 · 11-03-2009, 10:37 PM

Thanks, but that didn't answer my question at all. I didn't ask about that online content, of which I'm already aware, vis-a-vis his book. I asked specifically about his contributions to the Empty Tomb and whether his newest book rehashes most of what's found there or substantially expands on it so that it'd be worth buying. (that is, if I don't feel like sitting at a computer reading the older online version of it)

Finis,
ELB

Toto · 11-04-2009, 12:42 AM

Not the Impossible Faith is different material from the Empty Tomb.

The Empty Tomb is concerned with possible historical events around the resurrection. Not the Impossible Faith concerns the early history of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

11-03-2009, 02:39 PM	#1
wavy_wonder1 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 88	Need an opinion on Carrier's latest I've read Price's and Lowder's Empty Tomb long ago, and Carrier contributed several essays. For those who've read it of course, how does Not the Impossible Faith compare? Is it mostly a rehash of the material in the Empty Tomb? Is it substantially expanded enough so that purchasing it would be worth it? I like Carrier, but I don't want to waste money. Finis, ELB

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wavy_wonder1 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 88	Thanks Thanks, but that didn't answer my question at all. I didn't ask about that online content, of which I'm already aware, vis-a-vis his book. I asked specifically about his contributions to the Empty Tomb and whether his newest book rehashes most of what's found there or substantially expands on it so that it'd be worth buying. (that is, if I don't feel like sitting at a computer reading the older online version of it) Finis, ELB

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11-04-2009, 12:42 AM	#4
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Not the Impossible Faith is different material from the Empty Tomb. The Empty Tomb is concerned with possible historical events around the resurrection. Not the Impossible Faith concerns the early history of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

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