"Will the evidence for Christianity stand up in Court? A homicide investigator prepares the case!"
Reviewed by Audrey Lawrence
Posted June 29, 2013
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.
SUMMARY
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 “cold caseâ€: 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 readers’ 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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