What happens when an experienced investigative homicide detective turns his lens on the over 2000 year old accounts of Jesus? The results are definitely intriguing.
J. Warner Wallace is a well experienced homicide detective who has spent a significant part of his career working in the specialized area of cold-case investigations. After being mentored by others and years of specialized training, he brings a different perspective and insights so strong forensic evidence can be gathered even in cases where there are no living witnesses and hard evidence is very scant.
After having been an atheist for the first 35 years of his life, Wallace became first a Christian and now has a new vocation in being a strong Christian apologist in defence of his faith, especially after making a significant change from a "belief that" to a "belief in".
COLD-CASE CHRISTIANITY documents some of this very interesting journey that Wallace experiences in a very different way than other books on this topic. Drawing on his previous crime and homicide experiences and cold case investigative skills, Wallace applies them to the New Testament Gospels in the same way as if he was preparing a strong winning case about who Jesus is to present to a judge in court.
In this unique approach, he methodically divides his book into two main sections. This first contains ten chapters; each focuses on one of the ten key principles of police detective work to analyze the Gospel for evidence. His topics range from how to evaluate the credibility of witnesses to recognizing the rarity of true conspiracies. In each of the ten chapters he discusses where he has used these principles in his past police work and then on the evidence he finds in the Gospels to ferret out the truth. In the second half of the book, he meticulously examines the evidence to find out if people really were at events they said they were at, if they were biased, and if there is corroborative sources to support the accounts.
Wallace did not assume that only a Christian audience would be reading COLD-CASE CHRISTIANITY, so his well-researched message can be easily understood by readers of all faiths (or lack thereof) as well as by fans of police procedural works. The strength of this book is that it is systematically 'fact' based; yet, by being so literal, there is no allowance for the many metaphoric and/or symbolic meanings that brings the real richness of to those who have a "believe in". So, read the book, do go beyond the facts for a deeper mystery.
Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator.
Christianity could be defined as a Γ’β¬Εcold caseΓ’β¬Β: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity.
A unique apologetic that speaks to readersΓ’β¬β’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.
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