Published on 16 Mar 2016

On Saturday 18th July 2015 Bart D. Ehrman and Timothy J. McGrew joined as guests with moderator Justin Brierley on radio show “Unbelievable,” a weekly program aired on UK Premier Christian Radio from the London studio. They discuss “Can We Trust the Gospels?” Bart Ehrman discusses whether the Gospels are reliable historical records of Jesus’ life with Christian apologist and academic Tim McGrew. They debate whether inerrancy makes any difference, the authorship of the Gospels and apparent contradictions between them.

Program discussed on Bart Ehrman’s Foundation Blog: http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=10329

Christian radio show “Unbelievable” hosted by Justin Brierley: http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.

Timothy J. McGrew is the Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow with Apologetics.com. He hold a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University (1992). He has published in numerous journals including Mind,The Monist, Analysis, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Philosophia Christi. His most recent publications include “Evidence” in The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, a co-authored anthology in The Philosophy of Science. His teach interests include: epistemology, history and philosophy of science, philosophical applications of probability and philosophy of religion.