In 2004 philosopher Antony Flew, one of the world's most prominent atheists, publicly acknowledged that he had become persuaded of the existence of God. Not long before that, in 2003, Flew and Christian philosopher Gary Habermas debated at a Veritas Forum at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Habermas, perhaps the world's leading expert on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus, made the case for rational belief on the basis of the reliability of the evidence. Flew argued for alternative understandings of the evidence presented.
For two-and-a-half decades Flew and Habermas have been in friendly dialogue about the plausibility of the resurrection and the existence of God. This book presents the full content of their third and final debate, as well as transcripts of the Q A session with the audience afterward. Also included are a 2004 conversation between Habermas and Flew shortly after Flew's much-publicized change of position, as well as editor David Baggett's assessment and analysis of the full history of Habermas and Flew's interactions.
Here is your opportunity to listen in on a conversation with two of the greatest thinkers of our era about one of the most pivotal events in human history. Follow the evidence wherever it leads. And decide for yourself whether it's believable that a man could rise from the dead.
<p>Gary R. Habermas (PhD, Michigan State University) is distinguished research professor and chair of the department of philosophy and theology at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. </p>
<p><strong>Antony Flew</strong> (D.Litt., University of Keele) has taught philosophy at Oxford University (Christ Church), University of Aberdeen (King's College), University of Keele and University of Reading. His many books include <em>God and Philosophy, The Presumption of Atheism, Hume's Philosophy of Belief</em> and most recently <em>There Is a God.</em> Habermas and Flew's previous debates were published as <em>Resurrected? An Atheist Deist Dialogue</em> and <em>Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? The Resurrection Debate.</em></p>
<p>David Baggett (PhD, Wayne State University) is professor of philosophy in the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is the coauthor of <em>Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality</em>, <em>God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning</em>, and <em>At the Bend of the River Grand</em>. He is the editor of <em>Did the Resurrection Happen?</em> and the coeditor of <em>C.S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty</em>; <em>The Philosophy ofSherlock Holmes</em>; and <em>Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts</em>.</p>
David Baggett (Ph.D., Wayne State University) is professor of philosophy at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is the coeditor of Harry Potter and Philosophy and C. S. Lewis as Philosopher.
