The Dating of the Gospels

For a long time there has been much controversy over the dating of the Gospels. Attempts have been continually made to undermine Catholic Faith through various methods of scripture analysis. This was particulary done through the exaggerated use of the Historical Critical Method of scripture scholarship. There has been much scholarship in recent decades which has shown the work of modernist scripture scholars on Gospel dating as defunct, as well as their obvious spurious conclusions. The encyclicals of various Popes which condemned these practices as far back as the 19th century, were, as expected, proven totally correct.

The scholarship for scientific dating of the Gospels now favours the long held view of them as representing actual written records of eyewitness accounts. We encourage readers to study the attached recommended reading to see how far things have come in this area. No longer will later incorrect dating of the Gospels undermine Catholic Faith. It is now in fact verifying what has always been held about them. Many will be surprised to learn that redactions of the Gospels into Hebrew has often resulted in the conversion of Jewish scholars into Catholicism over the centuries.