This is always important and especially timely for Easter. Third, he has a section focus just on the resurrection accounts. Here he uses his expertise to harmonize the different Gospel accounts. Second, he has a large harmony of the Gospels. You can read the short and very insightful use of legal apologetics Here. Fifth, finally is Circumstances, the agreement of the testimony with specific evidence. Four is Experience, agreement of the testimony with general experience.
Third is the Number, Independence, and Consistency of the witnesses. Second, Ability is the ability for the witnesses to see, understand, and remember what happened.
These are first, Honesty, the general and specific honesty of the witnesses)p. Also, he applies five rules of evidence to examining the gospels. He applies these principles to examining the gospels. Here are three important ones.įirst, at the beginning there is a section where he uses legal rules of evidence. This book is broken into several sections. This book is titled, “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists.” It is available free to read online, download as a Kindle, PDF, or other formats at Project Gutenberg. He wrote a book on apologetics using legal methods. A fascinating work grounded in an impressive command of sources, it is also a landmark in the development of juridical apologetics, the defense of faith through legal reasoning.Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853) was a Jewish believer in Jesus and law professor at Harvard university. The Testimony of the Evangelists combines his juridical expertise and profound Christian faith.
Along with Joseph Story, he is responsible for the emergence of Harvard Law School and played an important role in the establishment of modern American legal scholarship. An expert on evidence, his most important publication is his three-volume Treatise on the Law of Evidence, the standard textbook in American law throughout the Nineteenth century. Greenleaf was Dane Professor at Harvard Law School during its formative period.
Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Originally published: New York: James Cockcroft & Company, 1874. The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice with an Appendix Containing a History of the Most Ancient Manuscript Copies of the New Testament, and a Comparison of their Text with that of the King James' Bible by Constantine Tischendorff. A Landmark in the Development of Juridical Apologetics Greenleaf, Simon.
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