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Dead or Alive?

Daniel Clark
IVP
9781844741564 | 1844741567 | 160pp
Size: 126(w) x 198(h) mm
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Is Jesus dead or alive?

Christians claim that Jesus of Nazareth rose bodily from the grave, three days after being brutally executed. If that claim isn't true, Jesus was nothing more than a good man, and the whole of the Christian faith collapses in a pile of dust. But what if it is true?

Daniel Clark shows how Jesus' resurrection is the key which unlocks answers to some of life's biggest questions:
- Is there anybody out there?
- Why is there so much suffering in the world?
- Does life have a meaning or purpose?

Using real-life stories of those who have come to believe in Jesus' resurrection, he explores the evidence so that we can make our own, informed conclusion. If Jesus is alive rather than dead, then another altogether more startling question emerges ?

Table of Contents
Introduction: Why read a book about Jesus' resurrection?

Part 1: Is it relevant?
1. Is there anybody out there?
2. Why hasn't God done something about all the suffering?
3. What happens when we die?
4. Does life have meaning or purpose?
5. Which religion, if any, is true?

Part 2: Is it true?
6. Looking at the evidence
7. Is the evidence reliable?
8. Dead...?
9. or Alive?

Part 3: So what?
10. What are the implications of Jesus' resurrection?
11. Life from death
12. Dead or alive
13. Meeting the risen Jesus

Postscript: What next?
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'Dan Clark gives the honest searcher and indeed the cynical sceptic a great deal of compelling material to consider.'
from the foreword by Rico Tice

'The Christian hope stands or falls on the basis of the resurrection of Christ. Daniel Clark engagingly and persuasively helps us to sift the evidence.
Presenting us with the transforming experiences of ordinary people, he challenges his readers to consider the reality and power of Jesus' resurrection, to explore it's significance for their own lives, and to encounter for themselves the presence of the Risen Lord.'
The Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester

'Brought together in an attractive modern package, this evangelistic book brings together compelling reasons for the resurrection for today. Daniel Clark argues clearly and attractively, and presents a straightforward challenge to the modern reader. Illustrated with witty cartoons, and peppered with testimonies from a wide variety of people, this will be an excellent resource for bringing the power and meaning of the resurrection to modern minds.'
Tim Thornborough

Customer Reviews

Great give-away-able book on the Resurrection
Review by Andrew Evans | 22.07.2007

There have been many classic treatments of the evidence for the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Most of them you will find referenced in this volume. But popular level books tend to date reasonably quickly so there is a constant need for the fresh expression of old truths. And Dead or Alive is an admirable successor to books like Who moved the stone?

Dan Clark weaves together his main argument with a series of real life testimonies (all interesting and some very moving) from people to whom the resurrection of Jesus is a personal experience as well as an historical truth.

The main part of his book works through three sections. In part 1 he invites is to suppose that the resurrection is true and see that, if so, it offers profound hope in finding answers to questions like the existence of God, the problem of pain, the possibility of life after death and the validity of other religions.

In part 2 Clark presents us with the reliability of the Bible testimony to Jesus' resurrection, the different alternative explanations for the events of the first Easter and the compelling nature of the orthodox Christian claim. This part is the outstanding highlight of the book - a model of clear logical thinking.

Finally part 3 explores the implications of the resurrection and the necessity of a response from us to the living Jesus.

All this is done in an eminently readable style with entertaining cartoons interspersed. The points are well illustrated and there is plenty here to capture the interest of Christian, enquirer and hardened sceptic alike.

Occasionally the illustrations obscure a point rather than illuminating it. So when Paul talks about Jesus being the "image of the invisible God" it isn't really like having the fingerprints of the person who burgled your house left behind as Clark suggests - rather it is like the burglar coming and introducing himself to you personally! And once or twice I felt that the confidence in the genuine harmony of the gospel testimony to Jesus' resurrection was not quite as firm as I would like to see. But these are minor blemishes on an otherwise excellent book. Buy it, read it and give it to your friends!

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A good introductory book to the arguments to support Christianty
Review by Becca Austin | 09.07.2007

A very easy to read introduction to Christianity. Not too academic and a book that can be handed out to non-Christian friends and family to read.

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