Louis Matthews Sweet

The Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ According to the Gospel Narratives Louis Matthews Sweet

Mr. Sweet's book is a very welcome addition to the discussion of the narratives of the Nativity. - J. Gresham MachenA thorough apologetic of the New Testament's account of Christ's birth. When 'critical' scholars began to assail Christian doctrines, they predictably began by assaulting those doctrines based on miraculous events-events neither provable nor disprovable. Those doctrines are based on faith and rely on the testimony of the apostles related in the Bible. Discover the depths and reliability of this testimony in Louis Matthews Sweet's classic study on Matthew's and Luke's birth narratives. Sweet shows the internal consistency of the accounts while taking pains to ask the questions posed by the toughest critics. The result is a robust apologetic that highlights the events themselves but also takes pains to show why the truthfulness of those events is important theologically.