Nothing But the Truth: Essays in Apologetics

by Karl Keating

Publisher:

Catholic Answers

, 1999

Overview

In Nothing But the Truth, Karl Keating explores Catholic questions in a series of essays. He leavens history, theology, and apologetics with his characteristic wit and candor as he shares accounts of our faith on trial and how he and others respond to each challenge. Readers are treated to a roller coaster ride that carries them from John Henry Newman to Ayn Rand, from Japan to Keating’s own backyard in San Diego. Once again, Karl Keating has provided readers with something that is as informative as it is entertaining, and as practically useful as it is inspiring.

In Nothing But the Truth, you’ll find the answer to these and other questions such as:

• When attacked, should I speak up? Or should I shut up?
• What if, by keeping silent, I allow the faith to be tarnished and people to be scandalized?
• Is my desire to vindicate the faith masking a deeper desire to vindicate myself?
• Is my pride overpowering prudence, or is it pride that encourages me to sit out the fray?

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Key Features

• Offers clear explanations of key Catholic doctrines
• Presents clear answers to difficult questions
• Includes guidance for Catholic living

Contents

• When Not to Turn the Other Cheek
• Answering an Absolutist
• What Does Father Mean?
• Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
• Evolving the Pope’s Words
• Going Down in Flames
• No Apology from the New Apologists
• Upstart Theories
• I Think Therefore I Am (I Think)
• Ayn Rand vs. Catholicism
• The By-Your-Own-Bootstraps Heretic
• The Painted Word
• The Faith in Old Japan

Top Highlights

“Apologetics is the reasoned defense of the faith, and its tool is the argument. No one ever became a Catholic or returned to the Catholic faith by argument alone. The most an argument can do is clear the path so there aren’t as many stumbling blocks to accepting the grace God offers.” (Pages 17–18)

Product Details

• Title: Nothing but the Truth: Essays in Apologetics
• Author: Karl Keating
• Publisher: Catholic Answers
• Print Publication Date: 1999
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 158
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Catholic Church › Apologetic works; Catholic Church › Doctrines
• Resource ID: LLS:NTHINGBTTRUTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:29:07Z

About Karl Keating

Karl Keating (born 1950), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at UCSD in 1972 and went on to get a J.D. at the University of San Diego. He worked as an attorney practicing civil law in the early 1980s. Leaving Mass one Sunday in 1979, he found anti-Catholic tracts on the windshields of the cars in the church parking lot.