Credentials of Taylor Marshall?

[phil19034]

phil19034:

You are taking what he wrote out of context.

Perhaps. I just remember coming away with the feeling that atheism was logical. After all if all he has to go on is personal experience then what’s the point?

Yeah, he surely doesn’t refute atheism anywhere as much as he could have. He could have quoted Aquinas, like he does when he teaches an entire short lecture on refuting atheism at the New Saint Thomas Institute.

However, I think he simply knew his target audience. The people who read that book are most likely not leaving for atheism. So he just basically tosses atheism aside without giving an apologetic against it.

 

[StudentMI]

Ironically it was Aquinas that convinced me after reading that book that God had to exist. Thanks for sharing.

 

[phil19034]

For me the bigger red flag with Marshall is that he converted in 2006 yet after less than a decade later he was qualified to become a highly paid face of Catholicism.

Well, to be fair, as soon as he converted, he worked at the Catholic Information Center in DC for a few years.

Also there are SEVERAL Episcopalian priests who convert and become Catholic priests in less than 2 years. So it’s not like Dr. Marshall rushed onto the scene.

https://cicdc.org/

 

[gracepoole]

No, he was raised Catholic.

 

[Bithynian]

Westminster Theological Seminary (an Episcopalian seminary outside of Philadelphia)

A minor correction: WTS is a Presbyterian college. It’s probably the most Reformed/Calvinist seminary in the US given that it was the historical birthplace of the fundamentalist movement. The founders and first teachers were from Princeton which they left due to disputes over liberal theology.

 

[phil19034]

phil19034:

Westminster Theological Seminary (an Episcopalian seminary outside of Philadelphia)

A minor correction: WTS is a Presbyterian college. It’s probably the most Reformed/Calvinist seminary in the US given that it was the historical birthplace of the fundamentalist movement. The founders and first teachers were from Princeton which they left due to disputes over liberal theology.

Thanks… I stand corrected and changed it my post to “Protestant Seminary.” I did that because, even though it is sponsored by the Presbyterians, Protestant seminaries seem to be non-denominational now a days. Plus, I know of a number of Episcopalian priests in the Philly area who went there.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

No, he was raised Catholic.

Just saying, I was raised Catholic, grade school and high school, and knew and understood very little about the faith until the last couple of years.

 

[gracepoole]

gracepoole:

No, he was raised Catholic.

Just saying, I was raised Catholic, grade school and high school, and knew and understood very little about the faith until the last couple of years.

My experience was the same. But I actually didn’t mean anything by my comment about Fradd – just noting that he was raised Catholic. He has said that he didn’t feel close to the faith during childhood.