Hmm …

… Did Updike Sell the Resurrection Short? - The Daily Beast. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



Here is something from Wittgenstein's Culture and Value:

What inclines even me to believe in Christ’s Resurrection? It is as though I  play with the thought. — If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like any other man. He is dead and decomposed. In that case he is a teacher like any other and can no longer help; and once more we are orphaned and alone. So we have to content ourselves with wisdom and speculation. We are in a sort of hell where we can do nothing but dream, roofed in, as it were, and cut off from heaven. But if I am to be REALLY saved, — what I need is certainty — not wisdom, dreams or speculation — and this certainty is faith. And faith is faith in what is needed by my heart, my  soul, not my speculative intelligence. For it is my soul with its passions, as it were with its flesh and blood, that has to be saved, not my abstract mind. Perhaps we can say: only love can believe in the Resurrection.

Wittgenstein also notes elsewhere that it is precisely the inconsistencies in the accounts that makes them persuasive. Such inconsistencies are characteristic of eyewitness accounts, especially the stranger the event being recounted.