Brant Pitre

First off, this is an evangelical book. It plays that a bit sly and appeals to objectivity a lot, but the afterword is unambiguous about it being a quote "weapon" in the hands of evangelicals. However, unlike the title cousin "The Case for Christ" it isn't disgustingly dishonest and manipulative - rather, it attempts to offer a rebuttal to the historical view of Jesus and source skepticism from modern biblical scholarship, primarily from the often directly addressed Bart Ehrman. The main method used to rebut that scholarship is however simply restating church traditions as fact, which is a bit limp of a retort when the point of modern scholarship was to question what was simply asserted by theologians.
It once again appears that the primary target audience isn't people genuinely questioning the historical facts or even seeking to proselytize the unconverted, but to give a book of affirmations to Christians struggling with their faith. Not that there's anything wrong with that.… (plus d'informations)