Good book for protestant considering conversion?

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Someone close to me recently completed Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Hahn. While curious, she remains unconvinced, but is willing to read another book. Recommendations?
 
camerong said:
Someone close to me recently completed Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Hahn. While curious, she remains unconvinced, but is willing to read another book. Recommendations?
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Do you think she may be interested in .mp3 files vs. books? If so, you may point her to my website: alabamacatholicresources.com, especially the page on Conversion Stories by folks from different denominations.
 
Thanks for the link, that looks good, but I’m really looking for a physical book. I will definitely pass on that resource though!
 
i love Dr. Hahn, but he is an academic, perhaps your friend would respond better to someone with more of a common background to her own.

**Steve Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant, has a great conversion story in his book Crossing the Tiber! http://www.steveraysstore.com/crossing-the-tiber.html

He converted to Catholicism, despite the pitiful example of most Catholics, once he studied the Early Church Fathers.

He says; "…the more I studied the early Fathers of the Church, starting with Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, (disciples of Peter and Paul), Papias, Irenaeus, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, and others, **I became convinced the early Church was Catholic. Intellectual honestly and spiritual integrity forced me to become a Catholic. **catholic-convert.com/about/why-im-catholic/
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The Coming Home Network (CHN) has many wonderful conversion stories here; chnetwork.org/converts.html

i would recommend you search CHN for some stories by converts with a similar background to hers, ie. atheist? agnostic? Non-Christian? Protestant?..

They are also on video here on EWTN; ewtn.com/journeyhome/index.asp

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark
 
It depends on what tradition she is coming from, but she may like:
Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic by Francis Beckwith

Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic by David Currie
If she’s Lutheran/Anglican or something along those lines these won’t be appropriate.
 
I would suggest Surprised by Truth ed. by Patrick Madrid. It’s a collection of conversion stories by people of different backgrounds. (It is now a 3-book series).

This book really fired up my faith and my desire to witness.

Gem
 
Mark77 said:
Steve Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant, has a great conversion story in his book Crossing the Tiber! http://www.steveraysstore.com/crossing-the-tiber.html

He converted to Catholicism, despite the pitiful example of most Catholics, once he studied the Early Church Fathers.

He says; "…the more I studied the early Fathers of the Church, starting with Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, (disciples of Peter and Paul), Papias, Irenaeus, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, and others, **I became convinced the early Church was Catholic. Intellectual honestly and spiritual integrity forced me to become a Catholic. **catholic-convert.com/about/why-im-catholic/
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Word! This is precisely the revelation that came to me recently. There is no video or audiotape with Jesus. There are only the actions of those that followed him that we have to live by…

As a free-thinker, it is incomprehensible to me that someone could be a Catholic and not want to know about these Early Church Fathers. Some evangelists might tell you that faith is all you need… but that’s just like planting a seed on a rock.
Mark77 said:
The Coming Home Network (CHN) has many wonderful conversion stories here; chnetwork.org/converts.html

i would recommend you search CHN for some stories by converts with a similar background to hers, ie. atheist? agnostic? Non-Christian? Protestant?..
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Yup.
Gem said:
I would suggest Surprised by Truth ed. by Patrick Madrid. It’s a collection of conversion stories by people of different backgrounds. (It is now a 3-book series).

This book really fired up my faith and my desire to witness.

Gem
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Seeing the reviews of that book on Amazon… led me to believe that the second edition was a bit better. Only thing is that one of the reviewers of THAT book said it was GREAT, but the “final nail in the coffin” would’ve been to add in a conversion story of an agnostic to a Catholic. So basically, just Googling “conversion agnostic to catholic” led me to SEVERAL different resources, which I have not been able to read yet (first few are actually about C.S. Lewis, I believe)…
If you just Google “conversion protestant to Catholic”… I’m sure you’d come up with a huge list like this! 😉
 
Karl Keating’s “Catholicism and Fundamentalism”
Bob Sungenis “Not By Faith Alone”
Bob Sungenis “Not By Scripture Alone”
 
camerong said:
Someone close to me recently completed Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Hahn. While curious, she remains unconvinced, but is willing to read another book. Recommendations?
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For me, the “Faith of the Early Fathers” edited by William Jurgens (3 volumes) was most significant in my conversion. It presents the early Church Fathers in a very accessible format and shows what the earliest Christians, following the Apostles, thought and believed. I think you can buy all three volumes together on Amazon for around $30.
 
camerong said:
Someone close to me recently completed Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Hahn. While curious, she remains unconvinced, but is willing to read another book. Recommendations?
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By far salvation contraversy by jimmy aiken
 
Dave Armstrong’s “A Biblical Defense of Catholicism” is great.
Also “No Price Too High” by Alex Jones, especially for Pentecostals.
 
camerong said:
Someone close to me recently completed Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Hahn. While curious, she remains unconvinced, but is willing to read another book. Recommendations?
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Either Theology for Beginners (author escapes me right now); The Lamb’s Supper (also by Dr. Hahn); or The CCC.
 
Moscati said:
It depends on what tradition she is coming from, but she may like:
Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic by Francis Beckwith

Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic by David Currie
If she’s Lutheran/Anglican or something along those lines these won’t be appropriate.
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For the Lutheran or Anglican, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail by Robert Webber is good. I believe he has since become Catholic, which I think is even mentioned in the book, or I could be thinking of Thomas Howard’s Evangelical is Not Enough. He then expounds on his journey into the Catholic Church in Lead, Kindly Light.

Another gem is By What Authority? by Mark Shea.
 
Ignatius33 said:
For me, the “Faith of the Early Fathers” edited by William Jurgens (3 volumes) was most significant in my conversion. It presents the early Church Fathers in a very accessible format and shows what the earliest Christians, following the Apostles, thought and believed. I think you can buy all three volumes together on Amazon for around $30.
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I’ve been wondering whether I should get this or not… and now I just gotta pull the trigger.
Drawmack said:
Either Theology for Beginners (author escapes me right now); The Lamb’s Supper (also by Dr. Hahn); or The CCC.
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Heh… Theology of the Body was written by F. J. Sheed. I know this because I’ve had this book floating around my room for the longest time. Don’t remember actually reading it, tho. :o Need to ge on that. :cool:
 
grndslm said:
Heh… Theology of the Body was written by F. J. Sheed. I know this because I’ve had this book floating around my room for the longest time. Don’t remember actually reading it, tho. :o Need to ge on that. :cool:
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You got the author correct but the title wrong. It’s Theology of Beginners. I highly recommend it for anyone considering the Catholic faith because it does an excellent job of laying out Catholic theology in understandable language.
 
Er… yea, I’d actually written “Theology of the Body was written by JP II”… then I reread what you’d wrote, and changed the author!! Forgot to change the book title, too. 😃
 
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