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May 9, 2025
Added Review of A Lawyer Looks at the Trials of Jesus: Using Legal Apologetics to Defend the Gospel Story (2025) by Robert G. Miller to the Resurrection page under Christianity and the Christian Apologetics and Apologists page under Christianity in the Modern Documents section of the Secular Web Library.
In A Lawyer Looks at the Trials of Jesus: Using Legal Apologetics to Defend the Gospel Story, Christian legal apologist Matt Vega attempts to defend the Gospel account of Jesus’ resurrection by arguing that the presence of twenty-five legal errors in Jesus’ Jewish and Roman trials prove that the execution of Jesus was that of an innocent man. He then goes on to argue that, when combined with other ‘facts,’ this in turn ‘proves’ that Jesus miraculously resurrected from the dead. In this review retired attorney Robert G. Miller argues that Vega’s arguments simply do not show any of the key points that Vega claims to show. Miller concludes that Vega’s book only superficially addresses traditional legal apologetics, and furthermore that it doesn’t even begin to establish either Jesus’ innocence of the accusations leveled against him, or that he was resurrected from the dead.
New in the Kiosk: Dilemmas of Self-Condemnation in Traditional Christianity and Islam (2025) by Reinhard von Richter
In this article Reinhard von Richter investigates the existential dilemmas arising from the literal adoption of salvific exclusivism and the doctrine of eternal torment, as upheld in traditional versions of Christianity and Islam: that is, that a Hell of eternal misery is the final destination of those who fail to achieve salvation. Through the analysis of various scenarios—which range from antinatalism and the dilemmas faced by physicians and politicians to family conflicts and extreme situations involving world leaders—the von Richter demonstrates how the attempt to minimize eternal suffering can lead to paradoxical and morally disturbing choices. This only underscores the horror and existential absurdity of these conceptions of reality.
Recommended reading: The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship by Nina E. Livesey
Since the late-nineteenth century, scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that this long-held interpretation has been inadequately substantiated and theorized. In her groundbreaking study, Livesey reassesses the authentic perspective and, based on her research, reclassifies the letters as pseudonymous and letters-in-form-only. Like Seneca with his Moral Epistles, authors of Pauline letters extensively exploited the letter genre for its many rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings. Based on the types of issues addressed and the earliest known evidence of a collection, Livesey dates the letters’ emergence to the mid-second century and the Roman school of Marcion. Her study significantly revises the understanding of Christian letters and conceptions of early Christianity, as it likewise reflects the benefit of cross-disciplinarity.
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