Apologist Interview: Tim McGrew

Today’s interview is with Dr. Tim McGrew, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. He is a philosopher and apologist who has written extensively in areas pertinent to epistemology. He talks about his background and work, examples of undesigned coincidences in the New Testament and Old, the arguments made by Bart Ehrman in his new book Forged and its fatal flaw, textual and literary criticism, spotting actual forgeries, good historical approaches to determining reliability, assessing the New Testament miracles compared to pagan miracles, apologetics works of the past, advice to apologists, and more.

See also Tim’s talk on Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels. Also check out the Library of Historical Apologetics. See works by Paley, Watson, and Bennett mentioned in interview.

Full Interview MP3 Audio here (52 min)

Tim’s books include:
• The Foundations of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology
• Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason

Enjoy.

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Brian Auten is the founder emeritus of Apologetics315. He is also director of Reasonable Faith Belfast. Brian holds a Masters degree in Christian Apologetics and has interviewed over 150 Christian apologists. His background is in missions, media direction, graphic design, and administration. Brian started Apologetics315 in 2007 to be an apologetics hub to equip Christians to defend the faith.

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