Our ready deference to the authority of science has left many people doubting that the resurrection of Jesus could have been a verifiable historical event. Despite the number of books written in defense of this foundational Christian doctrine, very few have engaged the question from a scientific standpoint. Thomas Miller, an experienced and well-respected surgeon, fills that gap.

He brings the diagnostic habits of medicine to the evidence: the physical facts of crucifixion and death, the condition of the body, the competing explanations for the empty tomb, and the behavior of the witnesses afterward. The result is an apologetic written in the register of someone used to weighing physical evidence under pressure, and it suits a scientifically minded reader who finds theological argument unpersuasive.