Ep. #202 – The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel w/ Dr. Lydia McGrew

by John DeRosa · Published July 25, 2022 · Updated January 2, 2023

Summary

Is John’s Gospel really historically reliable? What positive evidence supports the reliability of John’s Gospel? How should we think about issues in John’s Gospel such as (i) the timing of the temple cleansing, (ii) the explicit indications of Christ’s divinity, and (iii) the date of the crucifixion? Dr. Lydia McGrew joins the podcast to discuss these topics and her book The Eye of the Beholder.

Guest Bio

Dr. Lydia McGrew is a widely published analytic philosopher, author, and the wife of philosopher and apologist Timothy McGrew. She received her Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University in 1995. She has published extensively in the theory of knowledge, specializing in formal epistemology and in its application to the evaluation of testimony and to the philosophy of religion. She defends the reliability of the Gospels and Acts in her books Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts, The Mirror and the Mask, and The Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage.