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Title: Strangers at Your Door: How to Respond to Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Televangelists, Jimmy Swaggart, Cults and More by Albert J. Nevins ISBN: 0-87973-496-5 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Date: September, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Knock, Knock"
Comment: You have seen these guys on your doorstep, so instead of calling the cops, call AMAZON.COM and buy this book. YOu can match wits, if you are equal to the task. And boy, they will get it.
It covers all the topics in about as many pages. YOu will buy this book, by the time I amdone, so you can talk and speak with these guys. Share your mind, as I tell you!
Rating: 3
Summary: Lots of topics, not many pages
Comment: If anything can be said about this work, it is that it tries to cover too much for a book of its size. The unfortunate result is that some many of the topics get a mere glossing, consequently, it doesn't always devliver on the "How to respond" part implied in the title.
The opening chapters briefly discuss ecumenism, fundamental Catholic beliefs (the creed, etc.), and key scriptural texts that support critical dogmas. Finally, there is discussion on approaching apologetics with a spirit of charity before moving on to the meat of the book, what to do with "Strangers at your Door."
The meat begins with the Jehovah's Witnesses. In about 20 pages, there is a brief history of the sect, an outline of its key beliefs, and common arguments that the Witnesses use to persuade potential converts to their point of view. Nevins does an adequate job of providing orthodox rebuttals to these propositions.
Next come the Mormons, about the same number of pages are devoted to history and doctrines. Nevins discusses the extra challenge of "reasoning from Scripture" presented by these missionaries, since they consider the Book of Mormon to be the Word of God, while the same can be of the Bible only insofar as it is "correctly translated."
Nevins points out that terms like salvation, baptism, and even God have radically different meanings to both these groups than may be expected by orthodox Christians. This demonstrates that individuals must have their terms correctly understood to avoid "talking past each other."
The rest of the book is rather disappointing from the perspective of "apologetics," though somewhat useful from an informational perspective. There are very brief discussions of The Way, Baha'i, Hare Krishna, and Moonies.
This reviewer found it odd that the Church of Christ, and some of the more common Televangelists are included in the book -- again more from an informational perspective rather than apologetical -- since he apparently is trying to focus on those sects far removed from orthodoxy. In his conclusion Nevins acknowledges this point, and mentions that it is not his "purpose to make them all equal, only to stress that they are out to capture you in one way or another."
In the final analysis, the reader is left wishing that the author would have been a tad more focussed on fewer topics, because while the information provided is certainly good, this reviwer left the table hungry for more.
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Title: When Mormons Call by Isaiah Bennett ISBN: 1888992077 Publisher: Catholic Answers Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Jehovah's Witness (The 10 Most Important Things Series) by Ron Rhodes ISBN: 0736905359 Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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