So are you gearing up to answer Norm Geisler's new book?

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He was hammered by Calvinists for writing “Chosen but Free”. James white critiqued him in an entire book “The Potters Freedom”

I am sure we will have a strong Catholic apologist do the same.
 
I think it will be an intresting book from an evangelical/thomistic perspective in the vein of “Roman Catholics and Evangelicas: Agreements and Differences” (w/ Ralph MacKenzie), though foucsed more on the “difference”…not your typical anti-Catholic Reformed/Presbyterian treatise, i.e., Lorraine Boettner, “Roman Catholicism.”:
 
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I think it will be an intresting book from an evangelical/thomistic perspective in the vein of “Roman Catholics and Evangelicas: Agreements and Differences” (w/ Ralph MacKenzie), though foucsed more on the “difference”…not your typical anti-Catholic Reformed/Presbyterian treatise, i.e., Lorraine Boettner, “Roman Catholicism.”:
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I enjoyed and appreciated the the MacKenzie book (which I read first as a Protestant with no interest or knowledge of Catholicism and then again with a more sympahetic ear towards the Catholic perspective).

I’ll add this book to my shelf for sure.

Blessings,

Brian
 
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I enjoyed and appreciated the the MacKenzie book (which I read first as a Protestant with no interest or knowledge of Catholicism and then again with a more sympahetic ear towards the Catholic perspective).

I’ll add this book to my shelf for sure.

Blessings,

Brian
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Geisler received his Ph.D. from Loyola University and thus was trained by Jesuits. He is able then to contrast the differences between RC and Es with precision and clarity. He’s perhaps one of the best Thomistic Christian apologists today, whether Catholic or evangelical. He’s read and recommended by Peter Kreeft (Boston College).

He’s been called by Frank Beckwith, former evangelical and now RC, a cross between Billy Graham and Thomas Aquinas! I look forward to reading his book w/ Betancourt and any response(s) by RC apologists.

AVM
(1 Cor. 15:14, 17)
 
I own the book Roman Catholics and Evangelicals that he co-wrote. In the chapters discussing our differences, his arguments against Catholicism are specious at best. For example, he argues on page 339 that Purgatory is “contrary to the immediacy of heaven after death.” One of the verses he uses as a proof of this is Luke 23:43 about the good thief being told “that day” he would be in paradise…which of course says nothing that would make impossible a purgation at death. He also misrepresents Paul in Phil 1:23, stating: “the immediacy of ultimate bliss upon death for a Christian is confirmed by many other texts, including…Paul’s statement that, when he died, he would 'depart and be with Christ.” First off, Paul says it is his “desire” to depart from life and be with Christ. And secondly, the verse in no way precludes a purgation at death, which is logically necessary.

So while Giesler is fairly charitable in his language, even approved on the back cover by Jimmy Akin as being superior to “sensationalist” anti-Catholic works, his arguments are then just nice, but erroneous.

So if anyone is gearing up to counter his book, I would say, proceed forth with confidence, it’s going to be easy. :rolleyes:
 
I would rather read Geisler’s and Betancourt’s, “Is Rome the True Church?” (Crossway), or the one w/ MacKenzie’s publsihed by Baker, than James White’s (“RCC” [Bethany House])) or L. Boettner’s (“RC”[P&R]). They are not fair in their treatments and dismiss Thomistic thought as “Romish,” thus committing the ‘genetic fallacy.’ As Geisler says to his fellow evangelicals, “Should old Thomas be forgotten?” His emphatic answer: “No!”

-AVM
(1 Cor. 15:14, 17)
 
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