Jürgen Spieß

Jürgen Spieß is the founder and director of the “Institute of Science and Faith” (www.iguw.de) in Marburg/Germany. He studied at the University of Munich, where he  took a  PhD in Ancient History (with the subsidiary subjects “Egyptology” and “Philosophy of History”). For fifteen years he acted as General Secretary of SMD (IFES-Germany).  He is author and editor of books and articles including the subjects: F.M. Dostoevsky, C.S. Lewis, The Da-Vinci-Code, Medical Ethics, Science and Faith, The New Atheism, The Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and Christian Apologetics. He lectured at many European universities in Russia (St. Petersburg, Novosobirsk, Irkutsk, Tomsk) Ukraine and Georgia. He is a member of the “German Dostoevsky Society” and the “Inklings Society.” He lost his first family (wife and child) by a car accident. He is married again and has one daughter.

 2012 Forum Sessions

Luncheon Workshops

The Resurrection of Jesus from the Perspective of a Historian

The resurrection of Jesus is the basis of the Christian faith (1. Corinthians 15: 14,17): ”If Christ has not been raised your faith is in vain ... if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins”) and Christian hope (1. Peter 1: 3, “we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”). Therefore, Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus at Easter and every Sunday. Therefore, too, Christians are interested in history. What can a historian say about the resurrection of Jesus? What evidence and which sources are reliable?

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