Can the Gospels be trusted? The texture of testimony
Philosopher and author of 'Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels', Lydia McGrew, explores some of the characteristics of testimony within the Gospel narratives.
No doubt all of us, at times, have told anecdotes about things that have really happened to us. And, if we’re lucky, we’ve had the chance to listen to such true anecdotes, not only from our contemporaries, but also from those of a previous generation – parents and grandparents – and thus to learn about things that might otherwise be lost once the rememberers have passed away.
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Dr Lydia McGrew is a widely published analytic philosopher and author. She received her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University in 1995. She has published extensively in the theory of knowledge, specialising in formal epistemology and in its application to the evaluation of testimony and to the philosophy of religion. She defends the reliability of the Gospels and Acts in four books to date, most recently, 'Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels'.