Looking for an apologetics book from the 1990s

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I am looking for an apologetics book from the 1990s. I gave away dozens of copies of this book but never held onto a copy and now I can’t remember it. It had a deep blue cover, about 3/4" thick, standard paperback size. It may have been published by an Australian priest but I’m not certain. Can anyone help me? I’ve tried a few searches on line and am not finding it.

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Radio Replies, perhaps?
Father Charles Mortimer Carty and Father Leslie Rumble of Australia. There are three volumes.
 
Thank you both. It wasn’t Radio Replies; it was a single volume.
The last time I ordered a case was about 14 years ago and I don’t have any records of it. My memory is weakened. 🙂
 
Do you remember what specifically was in the book you are looking for? Perhaps searching for a book based on a specific argument made in the book might help? Like if there was something unique in the book that you hadn’t seen in another apologetics book…
 
just read a sample of this on Kindle, can already tell it’s a great book! was looking for something just like this for some time now.
 
Father do you remember the topic?
 
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Is it # Rome Sweet Home (English, Paperback, Scott Hahn) or Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics Book by Peter Kreeft

Are you Fr searching for a specific topic, we would be glad to help here at CAF
 
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Anything you can recall? Where were you when you ordered it? How you ordered it - website, specific company? cost? Was it printed/published in Australia? Why did it impact you so much?
 
Any of these names sound familiar?
 
Not from the 90s, but there have been several reprints: The Faith Explained by Leo Trese?

There were a couple different blue editions.
 
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Thank you to everyone who has offered ideas. As originally indicated it may have been an Australian priest but I am not certain of that.
I often used San Juan Catholic Seminars books on Apologetics and the first volume “How to Explain & Defend the Catholic Faith” is a great short intro to a variety of common topics approached from Scripture, History (esp. Fathers of the Church), and Reason.

The book I am looking for (probably ~200 pages in small paperback format) did the same overview of many common topics but went deeper (probably 10-20 pages on each topic) but still presented from simple explanation/format. It came back to mind because a young man just asked me about resources to start an apologetics group at their Newman Center. I pointed them to the San Juan Catholic Seminar books but also told him I had this other book that went deeper in many topics.

I’ll continue looking myself. I just thought that someone who was also reading and studying apologetics in the 90s might have used and remember a book like this. It wasn’t a personal testimony book. It was a teaching book. Thank you again.

AMDG,
Fr. Kurtis Gunwall
 
Alan Schreck’s book, Catholic and Christian: An Explanation of Commonly Misunderstood Catholic Beliefs, was first published in 1984. Might that be what you are looking for?

Or, perhaps it is listed in Catholic Answers’ Apologist’s Bookshelf.
 
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Was it perhaps something from the “Catholicism &…” series? This is the one with the blue cover:

 
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It may have been published by an Australian priest but I’m not certain.
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If it’s by an Australian author, maybe @Edmundus1581 can help.
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Thankyou, but I’ve read through the thread and nothing is coming to mind by an Australian priest.

There was one Australian born priest, who spent most of his life overseas, who was prominent in apologetics for much of last century. I’m trying to think of his name, and a work.
 
Father , I am Australian and have access to a Catholic library , small paperback size blue cover book from the 1990s? Pictures on the cover?
 
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Not Cardinal Pell, Edmundus? He has written quite a few works.
 
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