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<\/a>\nThe companion volume to *A Biblical Defense of Catholicism* \u2014 sixteen chapters of biblical arguments and dialogues for distinctively Catholic doctrines. Less reference, more conversation: most of the book emerged from real internet debates between 1996 and 2000. With a foreword by Dr. Scott Hahn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[two chapters (or portions) are hyper-linked (blue or brown) and can be read online. Some differences in the final book edit exist. ]<\/p>\n Dedication Chapter One: Biblical Indications as to the Definition of the Gospel and the Nature of Sacramentalism<\/p>\n Chapter Two: Fictional Dialogues on Sola Scriptura<\/i> (\u201cBible Alone\u201d)<\/a>, the Real Presence, and Penance<\/p>\n Chapter Three: Is Catholicism Half-Pagan?<\/p>\n Chapter Four: Sin and Sinners in the Catholic Church: Disproof of its Ecclesiastical Authority?<\/p>\n Chapter Five: Denominationalism and Sectarianism<\/p>\n Chapter Six: Catholicism is Neither Pelagian Nor Semi-Pelagian (The Nature and Extent of Human Effort in Salvation)<\/p>\n Chapter Seven: \u201cIs This God?\u201d: Biblical and Philosophical Reflections on the Blessed Eucharist<\/a><\/p>\n Chapter Eight: Why the Catholic Mass is Not Idolatry<\/p>\n Chapter Nine: The Old Testament, the Ancient Jews, and Sola Scriptura<\/i><\/p>\n Chapter Ten: Was the Catholic Church an Avowed Enemy of Holy Scripture in the Middle Ages or at any Other Time?<\/p>\n Chapter Eleven: Insurmountable Practical Problems of Sola Scriptura<\/i><\/p>\n Chapter Twelve: Dialogue on the Alleged \u201cPerspicuous Apostolic Message\u201d as a Corollary of Sola Scriptura<\/i><\/p>\n Chapter Thirteen: Dialogue on the Logic, Epistemology, and Practical Application of Catholic Infallible Authority<\/p>\n Chapter Fourteen: Dialogue on Biblical Arguments for Purgatory<\/p>\n Chapter Fifteen: A Biblical and Theological Primer on the Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Sinlessness, and Her God-Ordained Function as Mediatrix<\/p>\n Chapter Sixteen: Mary the Mediatrix: Biblical Rationale and Deeper Reflections and Explanations<\/p>\n Foreword<\/strong> When I began investigating the claims of the Catholic Church in the early 1980s, there were relatively few popular books on the market written explicitly to present the case for the Catholic Church vis a vis Protestant beliefs. In the last two decades Catholic apologetic resources have proliferated. I am grateful that more and better tools are consistently being made available for the work of building up the Church, the kingdom of God on earth.<\/p>\n More Biblical Evidence for Catholicism <\/i>is one such helpful building tool. In this book, David Armstrong has supplied useful information to engage those who are not enemies, but brothers and sisters who seek the fullness of God\u2019s family in the Catholic Church. This book provides information that can help lower barriers between Catholics and non-Catholics by exchanging information and perspectives on doctrinal issues such as sola scriptura, the Eucharist, and salvation. It can prepare Catholics to give a clearer answer for the hope that is within them (1 Pet. 3:15).<\/p>\n Reading this book needs to be accompanied by a significant amount of prayer. No amount of information or argumentation alone opens the heart to the grace of God. And the grace of God does not merely call us to intellectual assent to truths. We need to encounter Truth in the depths of our hearts, and answer His call to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him (Mt. 16:24).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n This work is intended as a companion piece and continuation (in terms of the general category of reasoning or apologetics) of my first book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism<\/i>. Once again my purpose is to accumulate biblical arguments in support of distinctively Catholic doctrinal positions, with Protestant readers particularly in mind (as well as Catholics not overly familiar with the Bible).<\/p>\n I also touch upon the closely-related subjects of sola Scriptura<\/i> (the Protestant notion of Scripture Alone<\/i>), the Catholic Church\u2019s high regard for Holy Scripture, and critiques from our separated Christian brethren with regard to matters of ecclesiology (Church) and Tradition (i.e., the twin Catholic counter-principles to sola Scriptura<\/i>), primarily in chapters nine through thirteen.<\/p>\n Additionally, a fair degree of emphasis has been devoted to certain common and erroneous charges against the Catholic Church (chapters three, four, six, and eight) and to dialogue (back-and-forth discussion), so that readers can have a sense of interaction with opponents of various Catholic doctrines, and how they might be answered from Scripture, history, and reason.<\/p>\n Almost all of these chapters came about as a result of challenges and dialogues undertaken via e-mail and Internet lists and bulletin boards, from mid-1996 through to mid-2000. My first book was much more heavily-researched and oriented towards use as a \u201creference,\u201d whereas the present work is more expository, informal, \u201cessay-ish,\u201d and conversational in nature, due to the circumstances in which most of the writing occurred (thus there are far fewer footnotes, by design).<\/p>\n A Biblical Defense of Catholicism<\/i> tended somewhat toward the catechetical, descriptive end of the theological spectrum; here I am trying to get further behind the thought and rationale of Catholic theology \u2013 to explore its \u201cworldview\u201d or underlying assumptions a bit more thoroughly, and even \u2013 sometimes \u2013 the epistemology of the Catholic believer (i.e., why and how they believe what they do: the process of acquiring that knowledge, or possible, theoretical rationales for it).<\/p>\n This exploration of underlying presuppositions and premises is especially true of the last two chapters on Mariology, which delve into very deep spiritual and theological matters (no doubt quite inadequately, but one has to start somewhere, and I am learning much myself, as I ponder, meditate, and jot down my own thoughts). I find that my own thoughts are greatly stimulated by direct challenges. Traditionally, Catholic apologetic endeavors have usually been counter-reactions to views which arose and competed with the accepted, received doctrines and teachings of the Catholic Church. Mariology developed in reaction to Nestorianism.<\/p>\n Trinitarianism developed as a result of Sabellianism and Arianism. The doctrine of Christ (particularly, His Two Natures) was, in the long run, better understood by the early Church and \u201cfine-tuned\u201d because of the dangers to orthodoxy posed by the heresies of Monophysitism and Monothelitism. St. Augustine developed his ecclesiology and theology (particularly with regard to grace) in the course of his disputes with the Donatists, Pelagians, and Manichaeans.<\/p>\n The details of all those noble and necessary battles waged for Mother Church are unimportant at the moment; my point is that much of theology, as well as apologetics, is done in the \u201cheat\u201d of competition and challenge. These confrontations help us to strengthen and better understand our own opinions and beliefs (or, conversely, to repudiate them if they are found wanting). This has been very much my experience on the Internet. I love the challenges which have come my way, and I my own faith has been greatly strengthened when the arguments I produced in the course of dialogue (ultimately almost wholly derived from the Bible itself or past defenders of the Catholic faith) withstood attacks and therefore provided further support for the Catholic position.<\/p>\n It has always been this way for Christians who are out in the \u201cworld,\u201d in the marketplace of ideas, contending for the faith. Jesus disputed with the Pharisees and other religious authority figures of His time, and \u2013 sadly \u2013 His own townspeople. St. Paul \u2013 as Scripture informs us \u2013 routinely \u201cargued\u201d and \u201creasoned\u201d with both Jews and Greeks. The Church Fathers opposed many false teachings and presented a positive message of the Gospel in the (altogether biblical) context of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I seek to follow their example and offer up my own meager contributions to the defense of Catholicism. I would like to share with readers some of what I have learned in my various dialogues and debates.<\/p>\n My thoughts and arguments throughout the book are not always (indeed, not usually) thoroughly-formulated, nor do I think they are even necessarily always successful, by any means. I am happy to leave that judgment of success or failure to the reader. My intention is to provide examples (especially in the dialogue chapters) of a Catholic grappling with opposing views and attempting to give an orthodox, magisterial Catholic response. These are real-life encounters, or at the very least, essays which were written with competing ideas and premises and worldviews (several of which I used to hold myself) very much in mind at all times.<\/p>\n I hope and pray that I have done justice to the topics I have dealt with, and that I have \u2013 in some small way \u2013 helped others to understand some things better, by God\u2019s grace. I am not a theologian, and have no formal theological training (though a great deal of informal training, these past twenty years). But perhaps that is preferable for my purposes, since (hopefully) I can express these points on a more popular level (assuming I do have correct beliefs concerning them), as opposed to a strictly academic, scholarly level.<\/p>\n I have never claimed to be a scholar, because I am not, and I reiterate that again here, lest anyone misunderstand the level of ambition for what I am presently attempting to do. I appreciate when someone thinks that I do possess such credentials (occasionally I receive such feedback), and it is flattering. But readers looking for the \u201clatest research\u201d or absolute rigor and documentation of every claim made will not find it here. Plenty of books can offer that (such as those by Dr. Scott Hahn), and I heartily recommend them, and use them myself, all the time. But I am trying to do something a little different.<\/p>\n My strength of argument exists only insofar as my reasoning and exposition is in harmony with both Sacred Scripture and Sacred (Apostolic) Tradition. I hope that I am completely in accord with those sources of true Christian dogma (I certainly always try to be). They can quite hold their own: truth has that inherent power. Our job as Catholic apologists is to communicate these truths accurately and in terms that our target audience can understand, and to show that they are more plausible and worthy of belief, in so doing.<\/p>\n The Catholic apologist mainly tries to remove obstructions or roadblocks, and to help clear up misunderstandings and erroneous \u201cdebris\u201d which often surrounds Catholic teaching and the Catholic Church. I also pray that our Lord God will help readers discern any of my own errors or inadequate charity, manner, or presentation, which got mixed in with the \u201cpassing-on\u201d of true Christian Tradition, and will \u201cdiscard\u201d them like the bone of a delicious chicken leg, or the seeds of an apple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\nContinue reading (21 more)<\/summary>\n
Foreword: Dr. Scott Hahn [below]
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