The anonymous author of Supernatural Religion answers Bishop Lightfoot’s celebrated essays against his book. Point by point he revisits the early Christian witnesses, Ignatius, Polycarp of Smyrna, Papias of Hierapolis, Melito of Sardis, the churches of Gaul and Tatian’s Diatessaron, to dispute how early the Gospels can be shown to have been known.
A key document in the great Victorian controversy over the dating of the New Testament. Download the free EPUB.