What place does the resurrection of Christ hold among the doctrines of Christianity? How much can we rely on the evidence of the so-called eyewitness accounts in the Gospels? Are these not just human fabrications? In answering such questions the author mounts an apologetic against the skeptical questions raised by modern-day unbelievers, refuting proposed alternative explanations to the bodily resurrection of Christ.

Montgomery interacts with the view that biblical documents for the most part are not firsthand eyewitness accounts of the events they describe, but merely the product of faith reactions of editors and redactors of literature.