Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable?

Mark D. Roberts has just completed a 3-volume online e-book on the reliability of the New Testament gospels.

I certainly haven’t read the whole thing yet (30,000+ words), but based on a quick scan, it looks like a pretty decent internet resource for Christians who are called on to do apologetics. It appears to be neither secular/revisionist on the one hand nor naive/anti-intellectual on the other. I assume that whatever slant exists is pretty much standard Reformed Protestant, but I really didn’t see anything that would get us riled up into an internecine cat fight. The contents are reproduced below.

(Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for publicizing this!)

Volume 1
Part 1 Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable?
Part 2 Can We Know What the Original Gospel Manuscripts Really Said?
Part 3 When Were the New Testament Gospels Written?
Part 4 What Sources Did the Gospel Writers Use? Section A: Written Sources
Part 5 What Sources Did the Gospel Writers Use? Section B: Oral Sources
Part 6 Did the Gospel Writers Know Jesus Personally? Section A
Part 7 Did the Gospel Writers Know Jesus Personally? Section B
Part 8 Did the Gospel Writers Know Jesus Personally? Section C
Part 9 What are the Gospels? History? Fiction? Biography? Or . . . ?
Part 10 What Difference Does It Make That There are Four Gospels? Section A

Volume 2
Part 11 What Difference Does It Make That There are Four Gospels? Section B
Part 12 Are There Contradictions in the Gospels? Section A
Part 13 Are There Contradictions in the Gospels? Section B
Part 14 Are There Contradictions in the Gospels? Section C
Part 15 Are There Contradictions in the Gospels? Section D
Part 16 If the Gospels are Theology, Can They Be History? Section A
Part 17 If the Gospels are Theology, Can They Be History? Section B
Part 18 If the Gospels are Theology, Can They Be History? Section C
Part 19 Do the Miracles Stories Undermine the Reliability of the Gospels? Sect A
Part 20 Do the Miracles Stories Undermine the Reliability of the Gospels? Sect B

Volume 3
Part 21 Do Historical Sources from the Era of the Gospels Support Their Reliability? Section A
Part 22 Do Historical Sources from the Era of the Gospels Support Their Reliability? Section B
Part 23 Does Archeology Support the Reliability of the Gospels? Section A
Part 24 Does Archeology Support the Reliability of the Gospels? Section B
Part 25 Does Archeology Support the Reliability of the Gospels? Section C
Part 26 Does Archeology Support the Reliability of the Gospels? Section D
Part 27 Do the Gospels Reflect the Political Agenda of the Early Church? Section A
Part 28 Do the Gospels Reflect the Political Agenda of the Early Church? Section B
Part 29 Do the Gospels Reflect the Political Agenda of the Early Church? Section C
Part 30 Closing Thoughts: On the Gospels and Faith