Published: 1998

My rating: 4 of 5 stars.

In “The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus”, Lee Strobel takes his readers on a search to examine the claims of Christianity; specifically, he researches the historicity of the New Testament accounts, the claims of Jesus that he is the promised messiah, and the truth about the accounts of resurrection. Strobel interviews scholars across the United States about these topics and recounts his conversations with these men.

Strobel was an atheist at one time in his life. After the conversion of his wife, he eventually began investigating the claims of Christianity on his own. Using his journalistic background as a legal editor, he considered the weight of the evidence that the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ life are reliable. Consequently, he had to come to a decision about the claim that Jesus is God in flesh…