The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Christ: in Answer to the Objections of Mr. Woolston and Others

Book first published in 1729. This printing according to research on WorldCat is from approximately 1850. Brown blind stamped cloth boards with gold lettering and gold embellishments on spine. Book is gently used with some minor wear. Pages have foxing. Previous owners' name and ink stamp on front free endpaper. Sabbath School Library plate on front paste down endpaper. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. SCARCE. Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761) was an Anglican Bishop of London. He is noted in church history as an important contributor to Christian apologetics. Since the Deist controversy Sherlock's argument for the evidences of the resurrection of Jesus Christ has continued to interest later Christian apologists such as William Lane Craig and John Warwick Montgomery. His place in the history of apologetics has been classified by Ross Clifford as belonging to the legal or juridical school of Christian apologetics. Inv. # 11219.…