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Title: What Catholics Really Believe-Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Catholic Faith by Karl Keating ISBN: 0-89870-553-3 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (27 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not too serious...
Comment: This book is much more about WHAT Catholics believe than WHY. I am a Catholic, but I have, like probably all or most Catholics, plenty of misconceptions about our faith. I hoped for a good clarification, and I got some, O'K, a lot. That's the part that I liked. However, in too many chapters Keating is just stating the position of the Church without any justification.
To make things worse, when he tries to justify the position of the Church, he does that in a way that is condescending to other religions. Just one example: writing about the rosary he says first that the Protestants think that the rosary is un-biblical, while he claims it is. He goes on to look at all the prayers of the rosary sentence by sentence. He points out parts that came straight from the Bible, and then... parts that are NOT from the Bible, and that CANNOT be justified based on the Bible. His comment is that the Protestants "read too much into it." This just did not sound right to me. There are too many statements like that one in the book to really enjoy it.
The book is not too bad as the first contact with apologetics, but for serious answers look somewhere else...
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent set of snapshots on the Faith
Comment: Karl Keating's excellent book is organized as a series of short, topical essays that respond to common misconceptions about the Church founded by Christ.
Despite the comments of a recent reviewer, the Faith described by Keating is "Biblical". After all, the New Testament was written by Catholics under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for Catholics! As Keating points out, only the Church can provide an authentic interpretation of Scripture. If the Bible interpreted itself as critics claim, we wouldn't have 26,000 Protestant denominations all claiming to be "Bible-only" churches.
Buy Keating's book and find out for yourself. It makes an excellent gift for a recently converted Catholic.
Rating: 1
Summary: They Certainly do NOT believe in the Bible
Comment: This book tries to set the record straight on what Romanists really believe. Unfortunately, like all other books by Romanists, the book contains deception and play on words that no reader will get an accurate understanding of this religion. The plain fact is that Romanists really do believe in salvation by faith and works (contrary to Romans 3:20), that Mary never lost her virginity (what about James?), that the apocrypha is inspired (this is contrary to centuries of Jewish tradition and is derived from the Septuagint rather than the original Hebrew text), that Christ's substance is really in the bread and wine (this is based on an awful "exegesis" of John 6:53-58 that would even put most hardline literalist fundamentalists to shame), and that the Roman Church is a very hierarchical ecclesial dictatorship that dictates doctrines (contrary to the simple congregational type of churches in the first century and the spirit of the Bereans). If you want an objective view of Romanism from reliable writers try "The Gospel According to Rome" by James G. McCarthy or "The Roman Catholic Controversy" by James R. White. These books will clear up any mud that might still exist.
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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: 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: Why Do Catholics Do That? by Kevin Orlin Johnson ISBN: 0345397266 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Catechism of the Catholic Church by U.S. Catholic Church ISBN: 0385479670 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Essential Catholic Handbook: A Summary of Beliefs, Practices, and Prayers (Redemptorist Pastoral Publication) by Redemptorist Pastoral, John O'Connor ISBN: 0892439106 Publisher: Liguori Publications Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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