Gary Habermas is widely recognized as the world’s foremost expert on the historical resurrection of Jesus. Most famously Habermas has made an argument called The Minimal Facts, a common ground approach that uses historical events that are accepted as historical by a significant number of experts, regardless of whether they are Christian, agnostic, Jewish, or of another religious persuasion, atheist, etc. “What are these minimal facts?” Habermas and Shaw argue for the historical reliability of:
1. Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.
2. Soon afterwards, his followers experienced what they thought were appear¬ances of the risen Jesus.
3. These events were proclaimed very early.
4. The disciples were transformed even to the point of being willing to die for these convictions.
5. James, the brother of Jesus, was converted after he also believed he saw the risen Jesus.
6. Paul, the church persecutor, was converted after he also believed he saw the risen Jesus.
7. The burial of Jesus was found empty.
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GARY R. HABERMAS has a PhD from Michigan State University and has dedicated his professional life to the examination of the issues surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus. He has contributed more than 60 chapters or articles to additional books, and over 100 articles in journals and other publications, and he serves as a professor of apologetics and philosophy at Liberty University.
BENJAMIN C. F. SHAW has a PhD in theology from Liberty University in Virginia and is president of Core Apologetics. He is the author of Trustworthy: Thirteen Arguments for the Reliability of the New Testament. Ben also serves as adjunct professor of theology at Liberty University and as an affiliate faculty member at Colorado Christian University.
