Craig Blomberg's blog

When I published the first edition of my Historical Reliability of the Gospels in 1987, I included a paragraph that was cautiously optimistic about the Shroud of Turin as the possible burial cloth of Jesus.  The very next year, the results of three independent laboratory tests from different parts of the world were released, agreeing that the cloth could not be dated to earlier than the 1200s or thereabouts.  I knew that if the book ever went to a second edition that paragraph would have to be replaced.

"Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters" is my newly posted article on the website created by the Christ on Campus Initiative of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois.  It is a substantive 15,000 word article on the topic, the equivalent to a medium-size booklet but still easily readable in a short period of time.

Tomorrow Christian churches all over the world will celebrate Palm Sunday, commemorating Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem five days before his death, riding on a donkey and surrounded by throngs of well-wishers acclaiming his arrival like that of a king.  The event has come to be known as Jesus' triumphal entry.  But does it deserve that label?

In my previous two posts, I referred to internationally renowned atheist philosopher Antony Flew and his recent conversion to theism.  In his recent autobiography, There is A God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (Doubleday, 2007), Flew describes not only his reasons for believing in God but why, if any of the established religions is true, Christianity is the one, in his words, to beat.  He does not claim to have become a Christian, but he prints in Appendix B responses he has received from Anglican Bishop of Durham, N. T.

Famed lifelong atheist philosophy professor Antony Flew now believes in God.  He declares in his recently published autobiography, There is A God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (Doubleday, 2007), that Christianity is the religion to beat.  A key current conversation partner for Flew is prolific New Testament scholar, professor and Anglican bishop of Durham, N. T.

In 2004, academics around the world were abuzz with the news that famed British atheist philosopher and professor Dr. Antony Flew had converted to theism.  An article in Philosophia Christi definitively broke the story, after a couple of premature announcements in other places.  Evangelical philosopher and apologist, Dr. Gary Habermas, had interviewed Flew and had himself played an influential role as friend and conversation partner over the years in bringing Flew to this dramatic change of mind.