early church, the normal proposals that try to explain things without the actual bodily resurrection of Jesus, simply won’t work historically. I see what I was doing as primarily a ground-clearing task, sweeping away the rubble and debris behind which bad arguments had been hiding. Thus, for instance, I have shown against Gerd Lüdemann that the idea of resurrection is not something which ancient people could accept easily because they didn’t know the laws of nature, whereas we moderns, with post-Enlightenment