{"id":3408,"date":"2006-12-08T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2006\/12\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-maria\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T12:59:00","slug":"how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2006\/12\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-maria.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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About ten years ago I threw out a message in a bottle. Well, it was really a message on an internet religious chat room. \u201cWere there any Bob Jones graduates out there who wanted to talk.\u201d<\/div>\n
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An old college friend, David Gustafson, got in touch. We started emailing about religion. By this time I had just become Catholic and David was finding himself disenchanted with the Evangelical church he was attending. From there we engaged in very long email discussions on things theological.<\/div>\n
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By and by I thought we might make a book out of part of our enthusiasm. The result is Mary \u2013 A Catholic Evangelical Debate<\/a>. <\/em>David and I cover all the territory\u2013the Virgin Birth, the Scriptural account, the perpetual virginity, Immaculate Conception, Apparitions, Rosary etc. He takes the Evangelical side while I take the Catholic. I think the book\u2019s unique in that we don\u2019t really bash it out trying to win an argument. If I humbly say so, I think we\u2019re both concerned to find the truth. The result is a book which really helps Catholics understand Evangelical objections to Marian devotion, and helps Evangelicals understand why Catholics have always given the Mother of God such honor.<\/div>\n
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The book\u2019s got a forward by Fr Neuhaus and the Evangelical theologian J.I. Packer. People have written nice things <\/a>about the book. If you buy it from my website instead of elsewhere the poor author gets more out of it. Be in touch! The advantage of buying it through me personally is that I can send you excerpts by email to see if you like it\u2026<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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