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Nothing But the Truth: Essays in Apologetics
"When attacked, should I speak up? Or should I shut up?
"What if, by keeping silent, I allow the faith to be tarnished and people to be scandalized?
"Is my desire to vindicate the faith masking a deeper desire to vindicate myself?
"Is my pride overpowering prudence, or is it pride that encourages me to sit out the fray?" When our Catholic faith is challenged, we all struggle with these questions. In "Nothing But the Truth," Karl Keating explores the conflict in a series of essays. He leavens history, theology, and apologetics with his characteristic wit and candor as he shares accounts of our faith on trial and how he and others respond to each challenge. Readers are treated to a roller coaster ride that carries them from John Henry Newman to Ayn Rand, from Japan to Keating's own backyard in San Diego. Once again, Karl Keating has provided readers with something that is as informative as it is entertaining, and as practically useful as it is inspiring.
"What if, by keeping silent, I allow the faith to be tarnished and people to be scandalized?
"Is my desire to vindicate the faith masking a deeper desire to vindicate myself?
"Is my pride overpowering prudence, or is it pride that encourages me to sit out the fray?" When our Catholic faith is challenged, we all struggle with these questions. In "Nothing But the Truth," Karl Keating explores the conflict in a series of essays. He leavens history, theology, and apologetics with his characteristic wit and candor as he shares accounts of our faith on trial and how he and others respond to each challenge. Readers are treated to a roller coaster ride that carries them from John Henry Newman to Ayn Rand, from Japan to Keating's own backyard in San Diego. Once again, Karl Keating has provided readers with something that is as informative as it is entertaining, and as practically useful as it is inspiring.
158 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 1999
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Karl Keating
33 books43 followersKarl Keating (b. 1950), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.
He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at UCSD in 1972 and went on to get a J.D. at the University of San Diego. He worked as an attorney practicing civil law in the early 1980s.
Leaving Mass one Sunday, he found anti-Catholic tracts on the windshields of the cars in the church parking lot. He wrote his own tract in reply and distributed copies of it at the Fundamentalist church responsible for the anti-Catholic tract. That was the start of what has become the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization.
Catholic Answers was incorporated in 1982, and in 1988 Karl left the practice of law and went into apostolic work full time. That year marked the publication of his Catholicism and Fundamentalism, the first book to deal extensively with challenges posed by “Bible Christians.” Other books followed: What Catholics Really Believe, Nothing But the Truth, The Usual Suspects, and Controversies. He is at work on several more titles.
For nine years Karl served as the editor of This Rock. He has been a columnist for the National Catholic Register and the Canadian Catholic Review and has written for many other publications. Each Tuesday he answers questions on “Catholic Answers Live.” His avocations include backpacking (his favorite locales are the High Sierra and the Grand Canyon) and flying.
He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at UCSD in 1972 and went on to get a J.D. at the University of San Diego. He worked as an attorney practicing civil law in the early 1980s.
Leaving Mass one Sunday, he found anti-Catholic tracts on the windshields of the cars in the church parking lot. He wrote his own tract in reply and distributed copies of it at the Fundamentalist church responsible for the anti-Catholic tract. That was the start of what has become the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization.
Catholic Answers was incorporated in 1982, and in 1988 Karl left the practice of law and went into apostolic work full time. That year marked the publication of his Catholicism and Fundamentalism, the first book to deal extensively with challenges posed by “Bible Christians.” Other books followed: What Catholics Really Believe, Nothing But the Truth, The Usual Suspects, and Controversies. He is at work on several more titles.
For nine years Karl served as the editor of This Rock. He has been a columnist for the National Catholic Register and the Canadian Catholic Review and has written for many other publications. Each Tuesday he answers questions on “Catholic Answers Live.” His avocations include backpacking (his favorite locales are the High Sierra and the Grand Canyon) and flying.
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September 13, 2024
THE POPULAR APOLOGIST WRITES 13 ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS’ RELATION TO APOLOGETIC ISSUES
Karl Keating (born 1950) is a Catholic apologist, the founder and president of Catholic Answers (the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization), and has also written books such as 'Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"', 'What Catholics Really Believe: Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Faith,' 'The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists,' etc.
He wrote in the Preface to this 1999 book, "[Some], not distinguishing between intellectual virtue and vice, obscure or even oppose the truth, which of worse. They may be found at all parts of the spectrum---left and right, inside the Church and outside. Each of these essays reveals the ideas and temperament of such people, either directly or, in two or three cases, by way of a display of the opposite qualities. I hope these pages will comfort those who... sometimes become discouraged when so many around them seem uninterested in truth."
He points out, "A baptized infant is a Catholic, even though he can't make an act of faith. A man who falls away from the practice of his religion through laziness but doesn't subscribe to another remains a Catholic. He's a lapsed Catholic but still a Catholic. It's only when he rejects Catholicism for another faith (or for no faith at all) that he ceases to be a Catholic." (Pg. 18)
He states, "The process that brings Catholics out of the Church and into other religions almost always includes appeals to the intellect. Call these appeals what you will---proselytism, proof texting, or just plain arguing---the appeals work, and they work because they are couched in terms of the duty of Catholics to apply reason to their faith. These Catholics, many of them habitual Mass-goers, have received little intellectual sustenance from their parishes." (Pg. 70)
These essays will interest those looking for material about ISSUES and METHODS of Catholic apologetics, rather than for apologetical arguments themselves.
Karl Keating (born 1950) is a Catholic apologist, the founder and president of Catholic Answers (the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization), and has also written books such as 'Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"', 'What Catholics Really Believe: Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Faith,' 'The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists,' etc.
He wrote in the Preface to this 1999 book, "[Some], not distinguishing between intellectual virtue and vice, obscure or even oppose the truth, which of worse. They may be found at all parts of the spectrum---left and right, inside the Church and outside. Each of these essays reveals the ideas and temperament of such people, either directly or, in two or three cases, by way of a display of the opposite qualities. I hope these pages will comfort those who... sometimes become discouraged when so many around them seem uninterested in truth."
He points out, "A baptized infant is a Catholic, even though he can't make an act of faith. A man who falls away from the practice of his religion through laziness but doesn't subscribe to another remains a Catholic. He's a lapsed Catholic but still a Catholic. It's only when he rejects Catholicism for another faith (or for no faith at all) that he ceases to be a Catholic." (Pg. 18)
He states, "The process that brings Catholics out of the Church and into other religions almost always includes appeals to the intellect. Call these appeals what you will---proselytism, proof texting, or just plain arguing---the appeals work, and they work because they are couched in terms of the duty of Catholics to apply reason to their faith. These Catholics, many of them habitual Mass-goers, have received little intellectual sustenance from their parishes." (Pg. 70)
These essays will interest those looking for material about ISSUES and METHODS of Catholic apologetics, rather than for apologetical arguments themselves.
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