The conference brings together experts to:
Provide Christians with world-class scholarly evidence in support of the historical basis of the faith.
Equip them to share that faith with confidence.
Whose testimony can we trust? A widely held idea is that Christian beliefs arose over a long period of time through a mixture of gullibility and conspiracy. Early Christian records are held to be legend, myth or fabrication.
Who has the true message of Jesus? Probably the most popular idea in relation to the Bible is that books have been missed out or put in due to political pressure and various media have been full of talk about ‘other gospels’.
The four gospels and the other gospels compared. Another popular idea is that the Bible has been corrupted, either by deliberate falsification or simply lost through passage of time. Such ideas are promoted in the British media.
We are being bombarded with false information about the Bible. It’s alleged that it has been corrupted by power-hungry Christians. They are charged with having omitted books they did not like, and changing the original message of Jesus
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EDINBURGH
Charlotte Chapel
Sat. 29 January 2011
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| Dr Simon Gathercole |
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Some of his books include: Where is Boasting? Early Jewish Soteriology and the New Perspective on Paul, and The Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark and Luke. He is an acknowledged expert on early apocryphal gospels, having written The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity (Oxford University Press). He is now writing a commentary on the Gospel of Thomas. He is married to Rosie and has two children, Martha and Freddie. |
Dr Simon Gathercole is Editor of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Having studied Classics and Theology at Cambridge University, he completed his doctorate at Durham University, and was appointed Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen. He is now Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.