Jesus Is Alive: Louis Zamperini

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Written By Edward Wolfe

The resurrection of Jesus is more than a mere historical curiosity.  His living presence has impacted millions of lives across the globe and through the centuries. 

Louis Zamperini (1917-2014)

One of these was Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), an American World War II bomber pilot, who was shot down over the Pacific and somehow survived brutal imprisonment in Japanese prisoner of war camps.  He is the subject of the compelling account of his life in Laura Hillenbrand’s gripping 2010 biography Unbroken.  The first part of the book was made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie.  The movie presents Zamperini as the courageous man he was, unbowed and unbroken by the months of horrifying abuse by his captors.  The book, however, tells a more complete story.  The title, it seems, is ironic because Louis was in fact crushed and broken in spirit by his devastating experiences.  Not until his encounter with Jesus could Louis truly be said to be unbroken, or rather mended and made whole.  For Louis Zamperini, Jesus was real.

This blog article is an excerpt from my book: Five Languages of Evidence: How to Speak about Reasons for Christianity in a Post-truth World.  Not yet published; available upon request. 

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Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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