Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"

Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" | Karl Keating | Great eye opener

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	Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" Karl Keating Ignatius Press, 1988 - 360 pages average customer review:based on 145 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Karl Keating defends Catholicism from fundamentalist attacks and explains why fundamentalism has been so successful in converting ``Romanists". After showing the origins of fundamentalism, he examines representative anti-Catholic groups and presents their arguments in their own words. His rebuttals are clear, detailed, and charitable. Special emphasis is given to the scriptural basis for Catholic doctrines and beliefs.

Why didn't I learn this in school?

This book, 2 Baptist preachers, a AKJV Bible and Joseph Smith allowed Jesus to bring me out of a Baptist denomination and home to His visible body on earth, His Catholic Church.

You can not deny the truth in this book or the complete 73 Book Bible.

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Great eye opener

This book came from heaven! Very instrumental in my conversion. It does a good job of exposing those trying to expose the "Evil Roman Church" as well as explaining Catholic doctrines.

It clears up hisorical misconceptions, including many found in Lorraine Boettner's hate book, Roman Catholicism. This book shows, with legit evidence, that history is always on the side of the Catholic Church.

One point that really hit the nail straight on was how fundamentalists consider doctrines like Eucharist, Confession Purgatory to be "inventions of Rome", yet they don't consider their doctrines such as once saved always saved, sola scriptura, and sola fide to be inventions? (all of those came in the last 500 years).

Overall a good read for Catholic apologists in training as well as Fundamentalists.

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CATHOICISM & FUNDAMENTALISM

CARL KEATING HAS PROVIDED SOLID ANSWERS WITH HISTORICAL AND SCRIPTURAL BACK-UP TO ATTACKS ON THE CATHOLIC FAITH THAT HAVE BEEN PERPETRATED, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, BY FUNDAMENTAL EVANGELICALS. AS ONE WHO HAS BEEN HAMMERED, UNJUSTLY BY FOLKS OF THIS PERSUASION, I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR HIS, IN DEPTH, INSIGHTS.

I MIGHT ADD THAT, WITH A FEW EDUCATED ANSWERS FROM KEATING'S BOOK, I'VE MANAGED TO "SHUT DOWN" SOME OF THE SAME OLD, TIRED, POINTED COMMENTS FROM ONE OF MY MOST ANTAGONISTIC OPPONENTS.

THANK YOU MR. KEATING FOR YOUR DETAILED, PLAIN LANGUAGE EXPLAINATIONS OF THE FAITH THAT SO MANY OF US HOLD DEAR, AND JUST DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT TO WARD OF THESE EVANGELICAL ATTACKS.

JACK MEYER
DANVILLE, NH

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AWESOME BOOK!!!

One of the BEST!! So many people have converted to Catholicism because of this book. Many have come to a greater understanding and appreciation of the Catholic faith because this book clears up all the misconceptions people have heard and because it reveals the truth of Catholicism right from the horses mouth. A must read!

Good overview and intro to Apologetics

This is a clearly written introduction to Roman Catholic apologetics. Keating explains what apologetics is, identifies the top traditional criticisms of Roman Catholicism by Protestants, more specifically fundamentalists, and how to rebut them, and finishes with a very high level "so you think you want to be an apologist" chapter and a chapter recommending other books for further reading if you want to get serious.

I found it a bit dated in his examples and who his focus is on. For example, he spends quite a bit of time on Jimmy Swaggert. Clearly in the 1980's he was prominent, but just as clearly he is irrelevant today. I would like to see an update on who the current cast of characters/ organizations are that sponsor and promote anti-catholicism, but I guess you can get that from Keating's website. In any of the 5 states I have lived I have never experienced the anti-catholic protesting and pamphleteering he writes about as if it is commonplace. Again, maybe I'm just lucky. More often the opportunity for apologetics arises at family and friend informal gatherings when the topic turns to religion. Not with a fundamentalist banging on my front door.

He consistently claims a large percentage of fundamentalist converts are former Catholics but I don't see that where I live. My experience with fundamentalist/bible-church types is not that they have any strong animosity or are stridently anti-catholic but that they are frankly just woefully uneducated on the Christian religion (as are many catholics) beyond what the bible and their particular pastor/priest says. They also tend to be from other Protestant faiths more often than not in my observation. A good bit of this book should help a Catholic educate these folks on the church, and probably educate the Catholic on his own Church as well. I would also recommend The Faith Explained by Leo Trese as an excellent and easily read apologetic.

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