Brandon Vogt, author of What to Say and How to Say It: Discuss Your Catholic Faith with Clarity and Confidence, shares a forty-minute interview with Dr. Brant Pitre, a professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute. The interview is labeled “Trusting in the Gospels.”

You may wish to assign the entire interview and following questions to students as a homework assignment or play all or part of the interview in class and have the students respond to the questions as they are answered in the interview.

Questions

1. Who is Dr. Brant Pitre?
2. How do we know the Gospels are true?
3. What genre are the Gospels?
4. When were they written?
5. Who wrote the Gospels?
6. Were the Gospels anonymous or did they have names attached to them?
7. How do we know the information passed down through the decades is true?
8. How did the information not get garbled like the “telephone game”?
9. What is meant by eternal and internal evidence of reliability in the Gospels themselves?
10. How do you respond to the charge that the Bible is merely myth and legend

Photo Credit: Dr. Brant Pitre