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The Counsel of Trent

#500 – Godless Engineer dialogue debrief (with Jimmy Akin)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent sits down with fellow apologist Jimmy Akin to give a broader overview of the themes and issues raised in Trent’s recent dialogue with Godless engineer on the historical reliability of Luke’s Gospel.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.6

I'm your host, Cathergianche's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:15.9

Today I want to do a debrief episode of the recent dialogue that I had with John Gleason,

0:22.2

aka the Godless Engineer on the Historical Reliability of Luke's Gospel.

0:27.8

I've done a lot of these debriefs after debates and dialogues and the purpose of these debriefs

0:35.0

is not to go back through the entire exchange or to continue the exchange or anything like that.

0:43.2

My goal is to do that.

0:45.5

Or to do that as my colleague here has let us know what we're not doing.

0:51.4

What I want to do, what Jimmy and I are going to do.

0:53.8

That's why I'm really excited to have Jimmy Aiken, a senior apologist at Catholic Answers, to join me.

0:58.8

The goal I want to do is to expand upon some of the things that were brought up in the dialogue

1:05.2

because both John and I have read a lot on New Testament studies, historiography, things like that,

1:13.8

the existence of Jesus.

1:15.3

We've read a lot of different areas and when two people have read a lot in different subjects

1:19.2

and they talk to one another, sometimes people listening to it from the outside,

1:24.3

I believe that there is an expression for this.

1:26.4

I guess inside baseball would be the expression.

1:29.9

It's like, oh, you're throwing around a lot of different terms.

1:32.9

What exactly are some of these things you're talking about?

1:35.4

And I thought it'd be fun, Jimmy, to bring you on to discuss some of that.

1:40.0

So Jimmy, welcome to the Council of Trent podcast.

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