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Surprised by Truth 3
These tales will do for you what these converts had to do for answer the most common objections to Catholicism -- and answer them in terms that non-Catholics find familiar and easy to understand.These stories will remind you of the critical truth that all converts know but most others churches must not be judged by the weakness of their members, but by what they teach.
The closer these former Protestants looked at Catholicism, the more they found that Christ's truth is taught in its fullness only in the Catholic Church. No wonder this book's a convertmaker!
But these stories do more than make converts. If you're already Catholic, they help you explain the Faith to non-Catholics and they leave you prouder and more grateful than ever to be in Christ's Church.
So whether you're Catholic or just inquiring, Surprised by Truth 3 is the book for you!
The closer these former Protestants looked at Catholicism, the more they found that Christ's truth is taught in its fullness only in the Catholic Church. No wonder this book's a convertmaker!
But these stories do more than make converts. If you're already Catholic, they help you explain the Faith to non-Catholics and they leave you prouder and more grateful than ever to be in Christ's Church.
So whether you're Catholic or just inquiring, Surprised by Truth 3 is the book for you!
272 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2002
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About the author
Patrick Madrid
70 books94 followersPATRICK MADRID is the publisher of Envoy Magazine, a journal of contemporary Catholic thought, and the director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered numerous journalism awards, including several first-place awards in the magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” category from the Catholic Press Association.
Patrick is the author or editor of 14 books on Catholic themes including, Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That, 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know, and The Godless Delusion: A Catholic Challenge to Modern Atheism (Spring 2010). He edited and co-authored the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series.
He has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
Active in apologetics since 1987, he worked at Catholic Answers for eight years (from January 1988 to January 1996), where he served as vice president and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.
Patrick is a cradle-Catholic, not a convert. By God's grace, he was raised in the Catholic Faith and has been a practicing Catholic his entire life.
Growing up in Southern California, he attended grammar school at the Mission San Juan Capistrano parish school, where for years he served as an altar boy for the parish's daily Traditional Latin Mass in the famed Serra Chapel. Ever since his boyhood, Patrick has loved the Traditional Latin Mass.
Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, where he is completing a master's degree in dogmatic theology. He has also done graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas.
He is the host of several EWTN television series, including “Pope Fiction,” “Search & Rescue,” and "Where Is That In the Bible?" and he hosts the Thursday edition of EWTN Radio's “Open Line” broadcast, heard on approximately 150 AM & FM stations across the United States, as well as on shortwave and on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network (Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. ET). He is also a regular guest on the "Catholic Answers Live" program and Sirius Radio's "The Catholic Channel."
Patrick serves on the board of trustees of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, on the board of directors of St. Gabriel Catholic Radio, in Columbus, Ohio, and on the board of advisors for Catholics United for the Faith, Immaculate Heart Radio Network, and Catholic Scripture Study International. He authored all the original website content for CatholicsComeHome.org, where he also serves as a theologica
Patrick is the author or editor of 14 books on Catholic themes including, Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That, 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know, and The Godless Delusion: A Catholic Challenge to Modern Atheism (Spring 2010). He edited and co-authored the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series.
He has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
Active in apologetics since 1987, he worked at Catholic Answers for eight years (from January 1988 to January 1996), where he served as vice president and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.
Patrick is a cradle-Catholic, not a convert. By God's grace, he was raised in the Catholic Faith and has been a practicing Catholic his entire life.
Growing up in Southern California, he attended grammar school at the Mission San Juan Capistrano parish school, where for years he served as an altar boy for the parish's daily Traditional Latin Mass in the famed Serra Chapel. Ever since his boyhood, Patrick has loved the Traditional Latin Mass.
Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, where he is completing a master's degree in dogmatic theology. He has also done graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas.
He is the host of several EWTN television series, including “Pope Fiction,” “Search & Rescue,” and "Where Is That In the Bible?" and he hosts the Thursday edition of EWTN Radio's “Open Line” broadcast, heard on approximately 150 AM & FM stations across the United States, as well as on shortwave and on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network (Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. ET). He is also a regular guest on the "Catholic Answers Live" program and Sirius Radio's "The Catholic Channel."
Patrick serves on the board of trustees of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, on the board of directors of St. Gabriel Catholic Radio, in Columbus, Ohio, and on the board of advisors for Catholics United for the Faith, Immaculate Heart Radio Network, and Catholic Scripture Study International. He authored all the original website content for CatholicsComeHome.org, where he also serves as a theologica
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September 13, 2024
THE THIRD VOLUME OF TESTIMONIES IN THIS ENGROSSING SERIES
Editor Patrick Madrid (born 1960), is a Catholic author, TV/radio host on EWTN, apologist, and the publisher of Envoy Magazine; he has written many books such as 'Search and Rescue: How to Bring Your Family and Friends Into or Back Into the Catholic Church,' 'Where is That in the Bible?,' 'Answer Me This!,' 'Why is That in Tradition?,' 'A Pocket Guide to Catholic Apologetics,' 'Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths and Misconceptions About the Papacy,' 'Any Friend of God's Is a Friend of Mine: A Biblical and Historical Explanation of the Catholic Doctrine of the Communion of Saints,' etc.
The other volumes in this series are: 'Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic' and 'Surprised By Truth 2: 15 Men and Women Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons For Becoming Catholic.'
As with the previous volume, there are fewer "big names" included (with one exception), but the testimonies themselves are still illuminating and fascinating.
A former Anglican states, "Roman Fever was, at least for me, much like malaria. It comes and goes unexpectedly. When you have it, you feel like it's going to take you off to Rome (a sort of death for the Anglo-Catholic), but when you get better, you easily forget it. When you don't have it, you tend to think of it as a chronic illness to be suffered until it goes away and you can get back to doing what you think you're supposed to be doing. I'd get the fever most often when reading the works of Catholic writers... I could get the fever from reading writers who didn't believe in Catholicism and even from writers who hated it... Albert Camus' books... had sometimes led me to look wistfully at the Catholic Church long before I had the slightest interest in joining her... George Orwell hated the Catholic Church, but almost everything he wrote showed me that she alone was the answer to questions he (and I) asked." (Pg. 24-25)
Discussing John 6:53-59, another writer recalls saying, "the Old Testament prohibition against cannibalism is exactly why many of Jesus' Jewish disciples left Him at this point... And as far as we know, Jesus didn't chase after them and say, 'Wait, I was only speaking symbolically!' So the disciples who left understood Jesus to be speaking literally. Otherwise, why would they leave? Somehow Jesus must have been speaking literally and yet not advocating cannibalism." (Pg. 121)
One of the most interesting stories is that of Patty bonds, the sister of prominent Protestant apologist James White [author of 'The Roman Catholic Controversy,' 'The Fatal Flaw,' 'Mary--"Another Redeemer?,' etc.], who "regularly engaged in debates with nationally known Catholics." She adds, "Theologically, I agreed with his arguments against the Catholic Church, but I didn't enjoy the intensity and rancor of those debates. I found them to be an occasion of sin for those on both sides. Tempers flared easily, and I just didn't see that arguing changed hearts." (Pg. 192-193)
During her conversion, she called Kimberly Hahn ['Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism'] for support. (Pg. 203) Accepting her brother's challenge to listen to his debates with Catholics, she observes, "Had I heard these debates, there's no doubt that I would have converted to the Catholic Church years earlier." (Pg. 227)
This entire series will be of great interest to those studying Catholic apologetics.
Editor Patrick Madrid (born 1960), is a Catholic author, TV/radio host on EWTN, apologist, and the publisher of Envoy Magazine; he has written many books such as 'Search and Rescue: How to Bring Your Family and Friends Into or Back Into the Catholic Church,' 'Where is That in the Bible?,' 'Answer Me This!,' 'Why is That in Tradition?,' 'A Pocket Guide to Catholic Apologetics,' 'Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths and Misconceptions About the Papacy,' 'Any Friend of God's Is a Friend of Mine: A Biblical and Historical Explanation of the Catholic Doctrine of the Communion of Saints,' etc.
The other volumes in this series are: 'Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic' and 'Surprised By Truth 2: 15 Men and Women Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons For Becoming Catholic.'
As with the previous volume, there are fewer "big names" included (with one exception), but the testimonies themselves are still illuminating and fascinating.
A former Anglican states, "Roman Fever was, at least for me, much like malaria. It comes and goes unexpectedly. When you have it, you feel like it's going to take you off to Rome (a sort of death for the Anglo-Catholic), but when you get better, you easily forget it. When you don't have it, you tend to think of it as a chronic illness to be suffered until it goes away and you can get back to doing what you think you're supposed to be doing. I'd get the fever most often when reading the works of Catholic writers... I could get the fever from reading writers who didn't believe in Catholicism and even from writers who hated it... Albert Camus' books... had sometimes led me to look wistfully at the Catholic Church long before I had the slightest interest in joining her... George Orwell hated the Catholic Church, but almost everything he wrote showed me that she alone was the answer to questions he (and I) asked." (Pg. 24-25)
Discussing John 6:53-59, another writer recalls saying, "the Old Testament prohibition against cannibalism is exactly why many of Jesus' Jewish disciples left Him at this point... And as far as we know, Jesus didn't chase after them and say, 'Wait, I was only speaking symbolically!' So the disciples who left understood Jesus to be speaking literally. Otherwise, why would they leave? Somehow Jesus must have been speaking literally and yet not advocating cannibalism." (Pg. 121)
One of the most interesting stories is that of Patty bonds, the sister of prominent Protestant apologist James White [author of 'The Roman Catholic Controversy,' 'The Fatal Flaw,' 'Mary--"Another Redeemer?,' etc.], who "regularly engaged in debates with nationally known Catholics." She adds, "Theologically, I agreed with his arguments against the Catholic Church, but I didn't enjoy the intensity and rancor of those debates. I found them to be an occasion of sin for those on both sides. Tempers flared easily, and I just didn't see that arguing changed hearts." (Pg. 192-193)
During her conversion, she called Kimberly Hahn ['Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism'] for support. (Pg. 203) Accepting her brother's challenge to listen to his debates with Catholics, she observes, "Had I heard these debates, there's no doubt that I would have converted to the Catholic Church years earlier." (Pg. 227)
This entire series will be of great interest to those studying Catholic apologetics.
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