Apologetics

1. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Arguments for God, Christ, and the Church, compactly organised.
2. Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The classic answer to fundamentalist objections.
3. The Fathers Know Best: What the early Church actually believed, topic by topic.
4. The Didache & the Apostolic Fathers: Read the sources yourself: bishops who knew the Apostles.
5. The Everlasting Man: History’s long view: man is not just an animal, and Christ is not just a man.
6. Orthodoxy: The imaginative case for Christianity.
7. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine: Newman’s answer to “Isn’t Catholic doctrine a corruption?”
8. Pensées: The wager, the heart’s reasons, and the misery and greatness of man.
9. The Belief of Catholics — Ronald Knox: Knox’s lucid 1927 case for the Church, back in print.
10. Introduction to Christianity: Ratzinger on what it means to say “I believe.”

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