#212 – Are the Gospels (just) human documents?

About this episode

The episode explores the reliability of the Gospels as historical documents about Jesus.

Given that they’re the best source we have on who Jesus is/was, it would be good to know how reliable they are. After deconstructing nearly every other aspect of the Christian faith that was handed down to me as a child, I thought it was time to do a mini-series on the question: “who is […]

People in this episode

Host: Luke Jeffrey Janssen

Topics covered

• reliability of Gospels
• Christian faith
• deconstruction
• identity of Jesus
• historical documents

Keywords

• Gospels
• Jesus
• Christianity
• reliability
• historical documents
• faith
• deconstruction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Gospels

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