Controversies in Jesus studies – John Dickson, Lydia McGrew and Jonathan McLatchie

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In the first part of the show Australian Bible scholar John Dickson talks to Justin about his new book ‘Is Jesus History?’ They discuss Jesus mythicism and Bart Ehrman’s views on oral tradition. In the second part of the show Lydia McGrew and Jonathan McLatchie discuss Lydia’s new book ‘The Mirror and the Mask’. It critiques trends among some evangelical scholars that Lydia believes are harming the historical credibility of the Gospels. For John Dickson https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/is-jesus-history For Lydia McGrew http://www.lydiamcgrew.com/ Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the video sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome along to Unbelievably with me Justin Briley, the show that aims to
0:10.8	get you thinking and listen to around the world by our podcast, you can find it at premierchristianradio.com
0:17.1	forward slash unbelievable and great to bring you a biblically focused edition of the show
0:22.0	today with a number of Christian guests actually we're dispensing with our usual Christian
0:25.9	non-Christian format today to hear from a variety of views on the historical Jesus I'll be introducing
0:31.8	them in a little bit and loads of feedback as well on the end of today's show huge mailbag of
0:37.3	feedback that I've received over the Christmas and New Year period we'll try and get to as much
0:40.9	of that as possible. Great to have you with me here on the program and just a reminder that the
0:47.0	unbelievable conference is coming Saturday the 9th of May and we are going to be opening up the
0:52.4	ticketing website this coming week so look out for it at unbelievable.live now if you're a regular
0:59.2	listener you'll remember that that's where you could get details of our last conference in the USA
1:03.6	well we're going to be updating it in the coming week to give you details of the UK conference our London
1:08.3	conference Saturday the 9th of May if you go there at the time of recording it won't be ready but
1:13.3	it will be ready by about midweek so looking forward to releasing details of that very excited of
1:18.0	course that we've got NT right Tom right joining us for the day and I'm going to be releasing
1:22.8	details later in the week of the other guests and one who were just confirmed very recently who I'm
1:28.3	really excited about especially to have him with Tom right. I'm going to keep it a secret until next week but
1:35.7	I know a lot of people are going to be excited about who we've got lined up in addition to NT
1:40.5	right for this year's conference so I'll spill the beans on next week's show and probably on social
1:45.6	media when we release the the ticketing details this coming week but do ring fence that date and make
1:51.4	sure you get booked in when the ticketing goes live at unbelievable.live it's happening Saturday night of May
1:57.1	as I say lots of response coming later on in the show to some of those great programs we've been able to
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