A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2015-2016." The Gospels in the New Testament contain a remarkable amount of geographical information, especially in the quantity of references to areas, towns and villages that Jesus (and John the Baptist) visited. Are these genuine or fictitious? Some Jesus skeptics
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2016-2017." The New Testament begins with the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each was written by a different author to a different readership initially, but now we can read all four and compare them carefully. This lecture examines
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2016-2017." In the Roman world in which Christianity first emerged it was viewed as different and dangerous. And Christianity was distinctive. Christians were called atheists and regarded as impious, because they refused to worship the traditional gods. Unlike other religious
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2016-2017." A night from Oxford! Alister McGrath holds three doctorates from Oxford in molecular biophysics, theology and intellectual history. He has debated the 21st century atheist Oxfordian Richard Dawkins, and published on the 20th century apologist and Oxford Don, C.