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Dramatically illuminated by a series of fine art paintings, Alister McGrath’s new volume seeks to engage both the mind and the imagination as he explores the great and extraordinary affirmation: ‘Christ is risen!’ Poetry, prayer, and theological reflection are interwoven with commentary on the ideas conveyed through works such as Maurice Denis’s Holy Women at the Tomb, He Qi’s On the Road to...

History does not deal in certainties, as the furious historical debates about even recent events make clear. But we can speak with complete integrity about the ‘best explanation’ of the historical observations. The type of reasoning that historians characteristically employ in exploring the past (for example, the ‘best explanation’ is tested rigorously in terms of its additional capacity to explain other developments) points strongly towards the bodily resurrection of Jesus. But it cannot prove,
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