I am going to start another large book, “The Resurrection of Jesus, A New Historiographical Approach” by Michael Licona. Licona says that this book seeks to produce a historical description of whether Jesus rose from the dead. Even though I know that Licona believes that Jesus rose from the dead, and that his book may slant the interpretation of the data to that belief, I feel like this book with it’s focus on the historical method will be helpful. The book looks daunting with 718 pages, but it should provide some good insight. I will try to provide reviews of different chapter as I go through this book. Wish me luck.
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I have not read this book, but I do remember seeing a few reviews on it recently.
http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2011/01/historical-jesus-and-evolution-around.html
http://sandwichesforsale.blogspot.com/2011/01/die-for-lie-licona-style.html
Can I just say wow…with an 80 hr work week + children, I’m amazed at your willingness to continue to research Christianity. I know your journey has lasted much longer than mine, and I’m sure you are exhausted!
Good luck, that’s a *lot* of pages!
LAC,
After my mom passed, my work hours have decreased. Without that I wouldn’t be able to pick up a book, let alone one that thick (both in number of pages and topic). Also my willingness to continue goes up and down. For instance my scripture reading which I wanted to try to do hasn’t occured for the last month or two, and I have pretty much stopped praying (except for the occational family or small group prayers). Maybe that’s why I have lost my faith
I haven’t been able to pray either. Meditate perhaps on songs like the nickel creek one. Everytime I think of praying, my thoughts turn to people that are physically suffering, and my faith battles seem inconsequential. And I know that were people in real life to know my faith issues and extent of doubt, they would likely find some way to blame me for not trying hard enough, etc.