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Recently, in the controversies over a critique I dared make of someone else regarding pro-life issues, several people, in the midst of an avalanche of the usual tribalism and personal attacks (yawn), noted that this one article of mine had little or nothing to do with \u201cbiblical Catholicism.\u201d They acted as if all<\/strong><\/em> I do is write stuff about \u201cBible and Catholicism.\u201d Therefore, if I stepped out of that box for a little bit, somehow this was hypocritical or something, or dishonest labeling (or so the critiques seemed to assume; otherwise, why say such an odd thing?).<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been a committed pro-lifer and activist since 1982: eight years before I became a Catholic and just one year after I got interested in apologetics. Up until that year, I had been the typical ignorant, apathetic, vaguely \u201cpro-choice\u201d person (based on mostly politically liberal input in my life). It\u2019s a serious commitment of mine: much as the civil rights movement was for many people in the early 60s. I\u2019ve been writing about it ever since, and so, recently, I have been addressing the conflicts between the so-called \u201cnew pro-life movement\u201d and the more established one that I\u2019ve been part of (which has been pilloried quite unjustly in certain quarters): sadly, by fellow pro-lifers and Catholics. It\u2019s all part of who I am. Being in that movement also played a key role in my becoming Catholic. The link was the issue of contraception (the first issue in which I changed my mind, in a Catholic direction).<\/div>\n
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Sure, \u201cBible and Catholicism\u201d is a big specialty of mine, and what I am most known for. I named my blog somewhat after my first book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism<\/em><\/a>. But the title, \u201cBiblical Evidence for Catholicism\u201d (here\u2019s a bit of trivia for ya) was actually more inspired by Josh McDowell\u2019s book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict<\/em>: which had a huge influence on me, in inspiring me to take up apologetics in 1981. And that book was entirely historical<\/em> apologetics, not biblical.<\/div>\n
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The titles of my first book and my website actually display some of my subtle \u201ctweaking\u201d and semi-provocative humor (which regular readers of mine are well familiar with). I knew that it would cause some anti-Catholic types of Protestants to blow a gasket, because the last<\/em>\u00a0two things they associate together are \u201cBible\u201d and \u201cCatholicism.\u201d So that\u2019s me puncturing through their false dichotomies.<\/div>\n
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Truth be told, I\u2019m actually more interested in Church history and history of doctrine, than in \u201cBible and Catholicism.\u201d Development of doctrine<\/a> is my favorite topic and reading Cardinal Newman on that topic was what persuaded me of the truth of Catholicism. But (my luck) very few care about that topic. My conversion had nothing whatever to do with \u201cbiblical evidence for Catholicism.\u201d It was all history and moral theology and arguments about ecclesiology: especially infallibility (which I absolutely despised before my conversion).<\/div>\n
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I started writing biblical defenses of Catholicism after my conversion in order to explain to my Protestant friends why I changed my mind. I took my cue and model from a book that I love: The Faith of Our Fathers<\/em>\u00a0by James Cardinal Gibbons. The most well-known version of my conversion story<\/a> (in Pat Madrid\u2019s book, Surprised by Truth<\/em>) illustrates this quite well. It\u2019s all about moral theology and historical arguments; not at all about \u201cBible and Catholicism.\u201d And historical topics remain my favorite topics to this day.<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t get me wrong: I really love<\/em> the biblical stuff, too<\/em>, because I love the Bible. I wouldn\u2019t write so much on that theme if I didn\u2019t (because almost always I write about things that I enjoy). I\u2019m just making the point that this doesn\u2019t define<\/em>\u00a0or confine<\/em>\u00a0me. I am about much<\/em> more than that, in the scope of my writing. Anyone who peruses the titles of my 50 books and my 3000+ online articles and 50 or so separate web pages will quickly realize that.<\/div>\n
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I even have extensive sections about holistic health<\/a> and music<\/a>. My one non-apologetics book is about classic rock music<\/a>, because music is another huge love of my life. I loved music and history a dozen years before I gave much thought at all to theology or even God (I didn\u2019t read the Bible till I was 18). I even majored in music at the great high school in Detroit (Cass Technical) that I went to (where the Four Tops, Diana Ross, Jack White, and jazz violinist Regina Carter also attended).<\/div>\n
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To give people not as familiar with my work an idea of the range of my writing: I have an extensive web page on the Church fathers, and have compiled three books of their material (one<\/a> \/ two<\/a> \/ three). I\u2019ve put together The Quotable Summa Theologica<\/em><\/a> (St. Thomas Aquinas). I\u2019ve edited three quotations books of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman (one<\/a> \/ two<\/a> \/ three<\/a>), and others devoted to Chesterton<\/a>, John Wesley<\/a>, and Catholic mystics and contemplatives<\/a>. Three of those were published by \u201cofficial\u201d publishers (as 21 of my books have been; the rest I did on my own).<\/div>\n
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I have very extensive web pages about atheism<\/a> and philosophy and science<\/a>; about Romantic theology<\/a> and Catholic conversion<\/a>, the life issues<\/a>, and sexuality<\/a>. Anyone who follows me at all knows of the range of topics that I write about. I\u2019ve written two entire books in response to John Calvin\u2019s Institutes of the Christian Religion<\/em>\u00a0(one<\/a> \/ two<\/a>) and two books<\/a> about Martin Luther<\/a> (along with extensive pages about Calvinism<\/a> and Lutheranism<\/a>). I\u2019ve even written one of the few books that compare and contrast\u00a0Orthodoxy and Catholicism<\/a> (with co-author, Byzantine Catholic Fr. Daniel Dozier).<\/div>\n
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I have web pages about Jews and Judaism<\/a>, heresies<\/a>, ecumenism, and the inquisition, Crusades, and Catholic \u201cscandals\u201d<\/a>; also about liberal theology<\/a>, Catholic reactionaries<\/a>, and politics and social teaching<\/a>; even Christmas<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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I used to maintain the largest web pages online about C. S. Lewis<\/a>, Cardinal Newman<\/a>, and G. K. Chesterton<\/a>, but stopped those recently, because they were too difficult to maintain (and Google pretty much replaced the function of such pages, anyway). 15 years ago, they were all prime locations for anyone online looking for material from these great men, and were noted as such by people like, e.g., Dale Ahlquist of the American Chesterton Society<\/a>, and the men who started up the Newman Reader<\/em>\u00a0website with all his works. My Lewis page was cited more than once as a major source in the evangelical magazine, Christianity Today<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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So it\u2019s a very odd comment, that these people have made. If they want to run me down, the least they can do is learn a minimal amount of information about what is actually contained in my website before making such a comment. But that is the problem so often today, online: folks opining before they think much or research that which they profess to know something about.<\/div>\n
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Titles of websites are sort of like actors being typecast in a role. People love a particular role (think of, e.g., Edith Bunker or John-Boy Walton, or Fonzie) and start to think that this is all<\/em> <\/strong>the actor or actress is about. And they hate that. Some never get out of it and their careers basically end. Musicians (composers) also detest being put into one box or style. They like to feel that they are always developing, and have a lot more to offer than one style only. I\u2019m the same. I\u2019d like to think that folks who read my stuff are aware of how many different topics I\u2019ve covered, and that I am not only<\/strong><\/em> the \u201cBible and Catholicism\u201d guy.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s not that big of a deal, but it irked me and I was bored tonight, so I wrote about it (trying to get myself tired, now at 1:30 AM), because I usually write about what interests me at any given point of time. And (to end on a positive note) it was also an opportunity to let people know of the wide variety of Catholic and general Christian topics they can find on my large website: lots<\/em><\/strong> more than just<\/em>\u00a0\u201cbiblical evidence for Catholicism.\u201d The title reflects a big emphasis (no question), but not the totality of what I do.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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