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Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Former atheist and Chicago Tribune journalist Lee Strobel takes an investigative look at the evidence from the fields of science, philosophy, and history.

In this revised and updated bestseller, The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools such as Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis, asking hard-hitting questions--and building a captivating case for Christ's divinity.

Strobel asks challenging questions like:

How reliable is the New Testament?
Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible?
Is Jesus who he said he was?
Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event?

Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award and twice nominated for the Christian Book of the Year Award, Strobel's tough, point-blank questions read like a captivating, fast-paced novel. But it's not fiction. It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure.

This edition includes scores of revisions and additions, including updated material on archaeological and manuscript discoveries, fresh recommendations for further study, and an interview with the author that tells dramatic stories about the book's impact, provides behind-the-scenes information, and responds to critiques of the book by skeptics.

Also available: The Case for Christ Spanish edition, kids' edition, and student edition. Plus, be sure to check out Lee Strobel's entire collection of Case for books:

The Case for a Creator explores the scientific evidence for God
The Case for Grace uncovers the "how" and "why" behind God's amazing grace
The Case for Faith responds to eight major objections about Christianity
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My Journey from Skeptic to Believer

I considered myself an atheist. To me, there was far too much evidence that God was merely a product of wishful thinking, of ancient mythology, of primitive superstition.

My wife Leslie stunned me in the autumn of 1979 by announcing that she had become a Christian, so I launched an all-out investigation into the facts surrounding the case for Christianity.

Setting aside my self-interest and prejudices as best I could, I read books, interviewed experts, asked questions, analyzed history, explored archaeology, studied ancient literature, and for the first time in my life picked apart the Bible verse by verse.

I plunged into the case with more vigor than with any story I had ever pursued. I applied the training I had received at Yale Law School as well as my experience as legal affairs editor of the Chicago Tribune. And over time the evidence of the world—of history, of science, of philosophy, of psychology—began to point toward the unthinkable.

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Atheist-turned-Christian LEE STROBEL is a former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and a New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies. He was described in the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists.” He currently leads the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University. Lee and his wife, Leslie, have been married for nearly fifty years. Visit him at LeeStrobel.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan; Updated, Expanded edition (September 6, 2016)
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Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310345863
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310345862
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.5 inches

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Larry Hilton

To Infinity & Beyond!

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017

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Lee Strobel's "A Case for Christ" was highly instrumental in leading me to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord & Savior. Coming from a scientific background, I was also skeptical about this whole "religion thing". However, the methodical scientific approach and evidence he discovered in his search for the truth, convinced me it is far more logical to place my faith in Jesus than not. I can do nothing but highly recommend this book and the movie if you are searching for the truth about Jesus Christ.

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As a student of Christianity and other religions for a while now, I found this book to be a big disappointment. I was drawn to it given the description of it by many of my peers - a hard look at the evidence from a skeptics perspective. Some even go as far as to say an atheist seeking to disprove Christianity being convinced by the evidence. This interested me in the book - what did Strobel find that was so compelling that it could change a staunch atheist's mind? I was genuinely interested in the answer for my own faith journey.

However, after reading this book, I can say the atheist narrative simply does not hold water with me. Strobel was clearly not trying to disprove Christianity here - not even to "give it a fair trial by weighing the evidence".

In the first chapter, he describes what began the journey - his wife converted to Christianity (much to his dismay), but then he noticed that she was becoming a better person. He says, “Instead, I was pleasantly surprised – even fascinated – by the fundamental changes in her character, her integrity, and her personal confidence ... I wanted to get to the bottom of what was prompting these subtle but significant shifts in my wife's attitudes". This is a great motivation to investigate the religion - but it is certainly not what the popular (and movie) narrative suggests - something like 'I set out to show her that Christianity is a sham'.

Secondly, every scholar Strobel interviews is a Christian, most seminary-educated and many actively working at a seminary. We know this from the pages of credentials Strobel gives us and his habit of asking every expert if their research has strengthened or reduced their faith (spoiler: all say strengthened). This is not to say Christians aren't good scholars (two of them are undeniably genuine experts in their fields - hailed by Christian and secular scholars), but I find it very hard to believe a committed atheist would forego all secular scholars and seek out only Christians for an objective look at the evidence. I suspect the purpose was to present the illusion that all biblical scholars are strengthened in their faith due to their research, which simply is not the case.

Thirdly, and most importantly for me, I do not feel Strobel gives skepticism the trial he claims to, nor the trial it deserves. He is content to accept vague and/or circular explanations (we should trust the disciples' word in the Bible because we have no reason not to - after all they wrote the Bible) and toward the middle and end of the book he is actually putting arguments for Christianity into the mouths of the experts (isn't it true that there is proof of the eclipse at the Crucifixion because a church historian quoted a lost text that talked about it?). He ignores major controversies outright and skirts legitimate problems about biblical authorship, biblical inconsistency, translation/transcription issues, etc. that any half-interested skeptic would know about and takes almost every assertion presented without question.

In the rare case that Strobel does raise a somewhat skeptical objection, he generally presents the most outrageous position a skeptic could take, setting up a strawman argument. An example of what I mean (obviously paraphrased for brevity):

Strobel: Are there non-Christian sources that support the story of Jesus as described in the Bible?
Expert: Yes (a generally cogent argument here)
Strobel: But wait, this author says that Jesus never even existed! What do you say to that?
Expert: We're confident Jesus existed because we have snippets of text that mention him in a Jewish religious book, a pair of Jewish/Roman histories, and a Roman letter.
Strobel: Clearly, there is overwhelming corroborative evidence that Jesus is the unique Son of God!

My problem with this is that the objection raised is extreme - *most* academics and people at large - including atheists - accept that a man named Jesus probably existed, they're just not sure that he was who Christians have claimed he was (God). Secondly, showing that a human being named Jesus very likely lived does not prove that he is divine, walked on water, or that any other unusual claim in the Bible is true. This is what the skeptical atheist should point out here. But by presenting the argument this way, he is waving off all legitimate opposition by deconstructing the least plausible of them all (and offering minimal scrutiny to the endeavor).

In sum, what all of these means to me is that Strobel is either greatly exaggerating his motivation/backstory (an atheist setting out to disprove Christianity) to create a more compelling apologetic, or he is terribly negligent as a skeptic in his investigation.

As such, I can only recommend this book to those seeking a confirmation of their active Christian faith. It will be extremely effective for those well-indoctrinated with the faith but starting to have doubts. It will be much less effective for one's skeptical atheist friend who they genuinely hope will be swayed by the overwhelming evidence and arguments in this book.

If you want a 'fair trial', read The Case for Christ alongside a truly skeptical perspective (I personally like Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, by Bart Ehrman) and determine what you believe. My guess is that your conclusion will be the same as where you started, but at least you will have given multiple perspectives a chance.

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Lee was an Atheist, and his wife, an Agnostic.What makes this book so interesting, even as a believer, is the fact that Lee, former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, embarked on a 2 year investigation into the reality of Christ. Was Jesus who He said He was? Did He really exist in the flesh? Are the biblical accounts just made up? Were there eye witness testimonies to miracles that supposedly happened through Jesus? Can groups of people maintain eye witness accounts without those stories becoming totally altered after passing down through even the first 20 people let alone generations?

The really great thing about Lee's "investigation" was that he set out to prove that his wife, who became a believer, and all the rest of us, were caught up in a huge scam. Experts in the fields where Lee's questions could be addressed were engaged in this quest. This book is not fiction!

Also, the movie, if you see it, does a great job of summarizing the whole investigation, and you get to "meet" those who were called on to fully answer Lee's questions, and they are not actors.

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I am a christian. My parents were born again long before I was born. My father was immensely and I mean it, immensely transformed after receiving christ. We prayed three times a day, and I was a firm beleiver in Christ simply by reading the bible and listening to men of God. Mama always spoke vividly about the Kingdom yet to come. It is the happiest time of my parents lives, speaking about Christ. I therefore knew christ without reviewing the evidence. Reviewing the evidence in this book has given me a new drive and commitment to the cause and now I am altogether stronger and better grounded. I wish I had read this book years ago! I would definately have had better use of my time witnessing for christ.

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Darren Adams

Disappointing, and unconvincing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2019

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Having debated aspects of theology, science and evolution with creationists and Christians, I have been told numerous times that this will be the book that will make me see Jesus in a different light and convince me of his divinity and resurrection. I expected that the book would see Lee Strobel visiting the Holy Lands, investigating ancient texts and artefacts, and generally immersing himself in the history of the region. But no... he never leaves the US. The book sees Strobel, who starts as an agnostic, interviewing 12 or 13 scholars about different aspects of Jesus' life. And these scholars are all firm believers in God, Jesus being the son of God (or a human incarnation of God) and the resurrection. It's a bit like investigating whether Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer ever and interviewing 12 life-long members of the Michael Jackson fan club. Guess what the conclusion will be.

Okay, there was some information that I didn't know about some historical sources, and a few moments where I paused for thought and even re-evaluated what I thought I knew (e.g. the common mantra that the gospels were written many decades after Jesus' alleged death). However, Strobel (who is supposed to be a hard-nosed investigative journalist who delves into the details) seems to be the most easily-convinced man in history. By the middle of the book he's talking about God as if it's a given that God exists.

The interviewees are clearly experts in the their fields, but they spew an enormous amount of conjecture. 95% of their source of knowledge is from the gospels - they do a good job of spinning their assertions that everything in the gospels is 100% reliable (even though the many contradictions are discussed at length) but personally I was left with the same doubts as before... if the gospels are based on a story which has been hugely embellished and exaggerated, and borrows elements from other mythical stories, then all of their arguments crumble without much prodding.

Ultimately it's quite a boring read... by the time you get to the 8th interviewee and - guess what - he's a God-believing Biblical studies PhD too, you know how the conversation is going to proceed and what Strobel's conclusion will be.

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Pauline Hoyle

What an incite.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2018

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I am a Catholic Christian who acknowledges Jesus Christ in my every day life but my old Christian faith was based on tradition not fact. This book has opened a whole new understanding of my faith through historically, spiritually and factually answering many questions, the answers to which I took for granted. Now I know why I believe, unequivocally, that Jesus Christ is God incarnate and alive in our world today and open to those who will accept him into their lives. Even as a Christian this book has given me a whole new meaning to my life.

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The book that changed me from a skeptic to a believer. A must read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2019

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This book changed my life when I first read it over 20 years ago. It turned me from a skeptic into a believer. Lee starts out to disprove the bible and history of Jesus and who he was.

It’s factual, presents real proof and any skeptic would be hard pushed to argue with provable facts. Easy to digest and really fascinating. I bought this second-have copy for my partner who is mostly skeptical of the stories in the bible.

Whether you are already a Christian, a skeptic, curious or want answers I can’t recommend it enough.

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Daniel

Recommended for anyone interested in Christianity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2017

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I think the best of this book are the interviews by leading scholars, historians and philosophers. The added journalistic experiences is a plus but this is not an journalistic book. Is something else, so don't expect it to be.
Even though he tries to argue against it, I would of liked to see a bit more oposition against the case.

I would recommend this book for anyone who is looking to Christianity as well as any Christian who wants to learn how much evidence there is for the case of Jesus's resurrection.

4 stars for the job of putting all the evidence together And making it easy to read.

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Mr. DC

True Understanding of Jesus via logical understanding!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2019

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I’ve just finished reading The Case For Christ
(which I bought the book after buying the film)

Matthew 22:37
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

As we must love God with our minds too; to be knowledgeable and logical thinkers (which to be theological & apologetics- like Lee Strobel is)

The Case For Christ definitely tells the testimony of Lee Strobel and how through logical understanding came to know that Jesus IS by all logical understanding: The Son Of God

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