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Title: By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition by Mark P. Shea ISBN: 0-87973-851-0 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent apologetic by a thoughtful writer
Comment: Mark Shea's apologetic is a sort of stealth evangelism directed at evangelicals who have unwarranted prejudices against Catholicism. The author takes the reader on a journey through his own intellectual evolution from a staunch evangelical to an equally staunch Catholic. Shea's journey begins by him attepting to debunk the claims of the Jesus seminar which claims that "orthodoxy" is not the true Christianity seen in the NT, but rather later corrupting traditions added by power hungry clergy. While trying to prove the seminar wrong, Shea realizes his own unthought out reliance on tradition and how Evangelical assumptions are essentailly the same as the Seminar - though perhaps less radical. The question that really gave the author a rough time was the question of the canon. This question enabled the author to see how the seminar people were simply carrying Protestant "sola scriptura" logic to its natural conclusion. The author also realized during his search that many doctrines he took for granted really were not spelled out explicitly in scripture and that he had been relying on tradition. The book is very well written and easy to follow. Shea's style has been compared - rightly I believe, to C.S. Lewis. I witnessed someone close to myself completely change his attitude against Catholicism after reading this book. There is much food for thought here for both Protestants and Catholics.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly readable, always enjoyable
Comment: Mark Shea's clever and at times witty examination of the authority of Catholic tradition is a book I turn to again and again in my conversations with others and in my writing.
A former Evangelical, Shea sets out to disprove reliance on Catholic Sacred Tradition for authority. He is unable to. His research and well-reasoned arguments make a solid case against the Evangelical argument of Scripture alone, and a solid case for Sacred Tradition as expressed by the Catholic Church.
This book is short and easy to read. It is meant for the lay person, not the theologian.
Rating: 5
Summary: Are you thinking about Catholicism?
Comment: If you are an evangelical thinking about Catholicism, maybe for the first time, or because you have encountered some Catholic traditions and theology that pique your interest? READ THIS BOOK. As an evangelical, I found it very palatable, in that I understood Mark Shea's allusions to scripture and writing style better than I did some other Catholic writers who do not have the "advantage" of an evangelical background.
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Title: Where We Got the Bible... Our Debt to the Catholic Church by Henry G. Graham ISBN: 0895551373 Publisher: Tan Books & Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" by Karl Keating ISBN: 0898701775 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic by David B. Currie ISBN: 089870569X Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Where Is That In the Bible? by Patrick Madrid ISBN: 0879736933 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic by Patrick Madrid, Paul Thigpen, Marcus Grodi ISBN: 0964261081 Publisher: Basilica Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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