Podcast | 2016 New College Lectures: Jesus & the Ten Gospels with Dr Simon Gathercole

October 11, 2016

The 2016 New College Lectures were held on Tuesday 20th and Thursday 22nd of September. The lectures were presented by Dr Simon Gathercole from the University of Cambridge. Some of the most widely published challenges to the Christian faith today have come in the publicity surrounding the “apocryphal” Gospels not included in the Christian Bible. The idea that there is nothing particularly special about the four New Testament Gospels has appeared in both the popular media and in Biblical scholarship, from references to the Gospel of Philip in The Da Vinci Code, to the publication by the Harvard Theological Review of the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” fragment. These lectures will discuss the relevance of these Gospels outside of the Bible, comparing them with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.