Well, welcome back, everyone, to our eighth and final session of the Lexio Bible study on Jesus,

looking at the biblical and historical evidence for Christ.

If you've been with us through the first seven sessions, you know we've covered a lot of ground.

We've looked at the question of the authorship of the four Gospels, the date of the

Gospels, the genre of the Gospels, the historical reliability of the Gospels, as well as questions

of Jesus' messiahship and his divinity and his crucifixion. And now we come really to the climax of

the whole story, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

the empty tomb and the good news of Easter Sunday. So that's what we're going to be looking at in

this session. However, before we dive into the mystery of the resurrection, I want to make one last

point just about everything I've been saying to you about the truth of the Gospels and their

witness to the life of Jesus. Some of the things I've said over the course of these lectures

might have been a little surprising. Maybe you hadn't heard them before. I've cited a lot of different

scholars, some of them Catholics, some of them Protestant, some of them atheists, giving you all

these different names. And I just want to be clear, before we bring our study to its close, that what we've really

been talking about over these first seven sessions is just the Catholic faith.

This is just the Catholic approach to the Gospels.

And I'm going to quote here from Vatican 2, Second Vatican Council, the document de veraum. It's the dogmatic constitution on

divine revelation, and it's the church's most authoritative teaching on the nature and the

truth of the gospels. And I just want you to hear what the church proclaimed officially in

1965, which, by the way, was at the height of skepticism about the

Gospels, this is what the church had to say about Jesus and the Gospels, the subject of

our study. And listen to what Vatican II taught. This is in Dave Arben chapter 18 and 19.

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