Volume 13, Issue 2, 2011
God and Abstract Objects
Hugh G. Gauch, Jr.
Pages 339-355
Natural Theology’s Case for Jesus’s Resurrection
Methodological and Statistical Considerations
An important 2003 book by Richard Swinburne and 2009 chapter by Timothy and Lydia McGrew develop the case for the bodily resurrection of Jesus as a project in ramified natural theology featuring public evidence. This paper imports a model for full disclosure of arguments from natural science to specify natural theology’s methodological and statistical requirements. Four matters need further clarification in this project’s ongoing development: the strength of the evidence, hypotheses being tested, dependence on generic natural theology, and range of evidence considered relative to apostolic precedents. The related historiographical method of Michael Licona is also discussed.