Review of: "After-Death Communications and the Resurrection of Jesus: An Engagement with Ken Vincent and Gary Habermas"
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This article analyzes the post-resurrection accounts of Jesus in the New Testament as instances of after-death communication (ADC).The article contends that, in light of comparison with scientific study of bereavement visions (pp.9-11), the "group visions" of the resurrection of Jesus by his disciples "may be explicable in terms of collective delusions" (Abstract, p. 1), borrowing a phrase from earlier studies by M.D. Goulder in 1994Goulder in , 1996Goulder in , and 2000 (p.9) (p.9).This article phrases its thesis "against the transcendentalist position" (p.16).The article elaborates on an earlier interchange published in 2012 between "the psychologist and researcher in religious experience Ken Vincent" and "the evangelical New Testament scholar Gary Habermas" (p. 1).In what follows, this open peer review will survey how Smith's article engages modern theory about the phenomena of after-death communication and of bereavement visions ( § 1), then it will evaluate how the article discusses ancient contexts of discourse on the resurrection of Jesus ( § 2), and finally, it will turn to evaluation and conclusions about the article's thesis and methodological approach ( § 3). Modern theory After-death communication (ADC)
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