Why Do Christians Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?

In conversation with Dale Allison’s The Resurrection of Jesus, this short article argues that, while critical historiography cannot establish with complete certainty the veracity of Jesus’s resurrection, this is not a problem for contemporary believers who confess that God has raised Jesus from the dead. The NT writings indicate that the church’s experience of the risen Christ and the Spirit of Christ validates its belief in the historical reality of Jesus’s resurrection.