While there are some things to be wary about regarding J.P. Holding's apologetics (especially his earlier works and activity), the following is a link to his thought provoking review of Robert M. Price's book
The Case Against The Case For Christ. It's a book which many skeptics love to refer to when trying to debunk Christianity. Price's book is itself a critique of Lee Strobel's book
The Case For Christ. Holding was given the name "James Patrick Holding" at birth. When he was an infant, his name was legally changed to "Robert Turkel". Holding used his birth name as a pseudonym online, before formally changing his name to his birth name in July 2007.
The Price of Playing with a Bulldog by J.P Holding
http://www.tektonics.org/ezine/pricecase/pricecaseindex.html
Here's a link to an audio of a lecture by Holding on the "Christ Myth" hypothesis:
http://youtu.be/cLrbQnfGucA
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[Richard Carrier] still find many of his [Robert Price's] claims
under-documented and his arguments often weaker than they need to be,
his methods are often a cipher, and he is bad at clarifying (e.g. he
will defend many different mutually-contradictory theories without
explaining what we are supposed to conclude from the fact that he does
that, such as whether he thinks they are all equally likely or whether
he thinks some are more likely than others but that all are more likely
than historicity, or if he even thinks they are more likely than
historicity rather than only just as likely or unlikely but likely
enough to be uncertain of historicity, etc.; and that’s not the only
confusion Price will lead you into, it’s just the one that I often
notice the most). He also never thoroughly defends a single coherent
theory of Christian origins, making him a moving target for critics
(contrast with Doherty, who does a generally good job at this, and is
the best mythicist to read, although he still stubbornly falls short of
dissertation quality argumentation and just complains when I say that
rather than trying to work out how to formulate and document arguments
in a way that would pass a fair peer review–such as learning to stop
crowding strong arguments with weak arguments, and instead drop the weak
arguments and just shore up the strong arguments).
http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/4664/comment-page-1#comment-54444
I [Bart Ehrman] should
say that one of the things that struck me, quite forcefully, in the
aftermath of the publication of the book, was just how virulent,
mean-spirited, and militant some atheists can be. The hate-mail and
hate-response that I received for this book from the far left was
absolutely as vehement as the hate-mail and hate-response that I have
received for other books from the far right. It’s not easy being a
historian, wanting simply to know what happened in the past, when so
many have so many vested interests in having things their own way. Many
of the mythicists are simply fundamentalists of a different stripe. Or
so I’ve experienced!
http://ehrmanblog.org/video-jesus-exist/
See also the resources at the following links:
Christian CADRE
Triablogue
Book Reviews of Recent Atheist Authors by Christian Apologists
