Evaluating Evidence for the Historical Resurrection: A Content-Centered Approach to the Resurrection

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to investigate the use of deliberative decision-making lessons, such as rank-order format, for evaluating historical events. In this lesson, students act as an ancient historian by evaluating historical pieces of evidence for the early Christian's claim that Jesus was raised bodily from the dead. Students evaluated eight separate pieces of evidence discussed in historical scholarship by rank-ordering the evidences from strong to weak.