Suggestions please!

[irishmac]

And it wouldn’t hurt to have “Early Christian Writings,” distributed by Penguin Books, Inc. either.

 

[DB_AND_ALI]

Yes, good ideas!
I think there has to be a sort of “bridge” like this to lead to a gradual change in thinking. This bookshop does seem to cater for the evangelicals and fundamentalists only, and if the owner gets people asking for Jack Chick’s stuff …

I’m probably the only Catholic who has ever darkened its doors.
(Thankfully, there’s a small Catholic bookshop in my city and a larger Anglican bookshop with a lot of Catholic stock)

However, this bookshop is far more handy to my workplace, so I could try ordering one or two “Catholic” books for myself, which might also open up new sources of supply to the owner - new booklists, etc. etc. which could also be beneficial in the long run.
I feel like some sort of enemy infiltrator! That’s my aim!

I’m going to give the bookshop owner a printout of Catholic Answers refutation of Jack Chick, and also the website of new Zealand’s Catholic Enquiry Centre, so that if any customers say they want to read Jack Chick “to learn about the Catholic Church” (yeah right) he might refer them to a rather better source of information, since he’s said how offensive he finds Jack Chick.
Once you have finished reading the books you have bought why not ‘donate’ them to libraries in your area ??? In our city there seems to be very few libraries that have catholic authored books. I decided to purchase a few ROME SWEET HOME books by SCOTT HAHN and donate them to local libraries…at least this way people have a choice to learn a bit more about our faith. GOOD LUCK…!!!

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A Te numquam separari permittas - never let me be separated from You

 

[Kitty_Chan]

ps I stumbled on this site because of Jack Chic. Hes awful, reminds me of old racist cartoons. Another bunch who LOVES Jack is atheists. They love him because it makes christians look like idiots.

btw atheists make NO distinction between Catholic, Baptist, Pentacostal we are all christians to them and idiots because of things like Jack Chic.

and also idiots because we cant agree, gives atheisists another reason to stay out of any church.

 

[Catholig]

Today I visited in my lunch break a large local Christian bookshop which stocks pretty much 100% non-Catholic stock, but I have often had pleasant conversations with the owner who is definitely not anti-Catholic. I commended him on having just introduced a series of books (called, if I remember, Christian Classics) which included some that I personally would consider Catholic, like the Imitation of Christ and Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence of God. We talked about the “treasures” of spiritual writing that have come from the Catholic tradition and “should be shared among all Christians” said the bookshop owner. He was going to buy some Henri Nouwen books, he said. I of course told him I was a Catholic, and a convert from a pretty anti-Catholic background, and he was really interested (probably had never met a convert ), and expressed his abhorrence of anti-Catholicism, and how ashamed he was about it.
Just now he rang me at work and said he had enjoyed our conversation and hoped we would talk more in future. He said he’d been asked to stock Jack Chick comics and wanted me to know he had flatly refused, and found him “downright evil”.
Now folks, what I want from you are some suggestions for other books he might stock in his shop that I could pass on to him, because it’s a chance to broaden the outlook and enrich his customers - and who knows where that could lead?!
I want suggestions of books/authors who are not TOO obviously Catholic, but would be acceptable to his Protestant clientele. So - he wouldn’t be likely to buy Scott Hahn, I don’t think, or books of convert stories, or anything too heavy in the apologist/polemical line.
I’d be grateful for your help, and meanwhile I will put my own thinking cap on. I feel I’ve got my foot in the door, here, and want excuses to keep in touch with this really nice Christian bookshop owner, for the good of the One true Church

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A Te numquam separari permittas - never let me be separated from You!

Maybe you could convince him to stock an apologetics section to stimulate…ecumenism? Friendly debate? If so definitly get the Catholic Controversy by Francis de Sales a place on the bookshelf.

If that doesn’t work, you could always suggest “An Introductroy to the Devout Life”. I got a copy through my local catholic bookstore, and it was published by Vintage as a “Christian Classic”.

Catholig

 

[Catholig]

Also if he’s stocking Augustine you might be able to suggest that he stock Aquinas’ Summa Theologica.

Catholig