![]() ![]() Greenleaf's work influenced many subsequent Christian juridical apologists. The result, it is confidently believed, will be an undoubted conviction of their integrity, ability and truth. ![]() Let the witnesses be compared with themselves, with each other, and with surrounding facts and circumstances and let their testimony be sifted, as if it were given in a court of justice, on the side of the adverse party, the witness being subjected to a rigorous cross-examination. In his essay the Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice, Greenleaf wrote the following:Īll that Christianity asks of men…is, that they would be consistent with themselves that they would treat its evidences as they treat the evidence of other things and that they would try and judge its actors and witnesses, as they deal with their fellow men, when testifying to human affairs and actions, in human tribunals. Greenleaf is often cited in the field of Christian legal apologetics. It is available free to read online, download as a Kindle, PDF, or other formats at Project Gutenberg. This book is titled, An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists. He wrote a book on apologetics using legal methods. Wilbur Smith this work "is still considered the greatest single authority on evidence in the entire literature on legal procedure.” Dr. Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853) was a Jewish believer in Jesus and law professor at Harvard university. In addition, Greenleaf was the author of the classic three-volume text, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (1842) and according to Dr. ![]() 6, 1853) was one of the chief figures in the early days of the Harvard Law School, a legal scholar, and also served as a Royall Professor at Harvard Law School. ![]()
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