The Gospels As Eyewitness Accounts
Many readers of this blog will know of Richard Bauckham's magisterial book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, in which one of the world's leading New Testament scholars makes a compelling case for the basis of the synoptic gospels in eyewitness testimony. However, the fact remains that most will not have got around to reading it, and may have been satisfied by the brief references in Keller's The Reason for God, or equivalent.
So it’s great that Peter Williams, of Tyndale House, Cambridge, has done such a good job of taking the big idea and turning it into a punchy, creative and fascinating one hour lecture. If you get a spare fifty minutes over the Christmas period - and let’s face it, who doesn’t? - this is well worth a watch. Heavyweight apologetics as it ought to be done.
Comments
By Emily Woods-Abraham on 20/12/2011 at 14:07
Thanks for this, Andrew! Looking forward to watching.
By Pete Thorne on 20/12/2011 at 22:26
This is by far the best apologetics I’ve heard in ages. If you know of more like this I’d love to know!
By Daniel Pritchard on 04/01/2012 at 16:56
I heard Peter and his team at Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh last year… Their work on Bible apologetics is excellent! I would love to invite them to do a day conference in the South East… working on it…