The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection by Lee StrobelMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this over the Easter weekend. It is billed as a hard-hitting journalist's investigation into the resurrection. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to the hype.
I found the style somewhat annoying. It is structured around a series of interviews with experts but the questions he pitches are hardly Paxman-like in tone. Too often the conversation between author and expert reads something like this:
But what about this difficult thing?
Ah, that is difficult but actually there is this which makes it all better.
Hmm! So, that means bananas aren't really yellow?
Exactly.
If this is an accurate description of how Strobel came to faith, I can't help but feel he was too easily convinced. To be fair though, I believe it is extracted from a longer version of his conversion experience. It is possible it has been over-simplified to make it an easier read.
I think I would have been happier if it had been described as a tract that concisely rehearses the main arguments for the resurrection rather than an investigation by a sceptical journalist. I don't mean this as faint praise; I think the book does a good job of sketching out the main arguments, for example by defending the gospels as historical accounts rather Christian myth.
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