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"Did Jesus Exist? Navigating the Debate"
(SEC 221-0712)
Online Seminar Course
July 1 – July 31, 2012

Instructor: Richard Carrier, PhD, philosopher, historian, and author
Instructor: John Shook, PhD, CFI director of education and AHA education coordinator

This one-month, four-module course will examine the question of whether Jesus existed, surveying the historical evidence and testing alternative theoretical answers.


Register at:
http://action.centerforinquiry.net/s...21&view=Detail

Seminar Objectives: This four-module short course, running from July 1 to July 31, examines the methods of historians, their relationship to the leading theories about the historical Jesus, and the available evidence both for and against his existence, and teaches students how best to evaluate arguments on either side (including how to check facts, spot fallacies, and avoid bad arguments).

Seminar Topics:

-The methods of historians and how to tell good history from bad
-The evidence for the historicity of Jesus and its context and value
-The most credible theories of the evidence (both supporting historicity and not)
-The best criticisms and responses to those theories.

Readings: Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (2012) by Richard Carrier. Students will purchase their own copy of Carrier’s book. Additional readings are provided electronically to students inside the instructional area, along with supplemental audio/visual materials, all available online at no extra cost.