Karl Keating ist ein anerkannter katholischer Apologet und Autor, der sich der Evangelisierung und Apologetik widmet. Seine literarische Arbeit befasst sich eingehend mit der Erklärung und Verteidigung der katholischen Lehre und reagiert mit Klarheit und Präzision auf gängige Missverständnisse und Kritik. Mit seinen Schriften zielt Keating darauf ab, den Glauben zu stärken und den Lesern Werkzeuge an die Hand zu geben, um katholische Überzeugungen besser zu verstehen und darzulegen.
Karl Keating defends Catholicism from fundamentalist attacks and explains why fundamentalism has been so successful in converting Romanists. After showing the origins of fundamentalism, he examines representative anti-Catholic groups and presents their arguments in their own words. His rebuttals are clear, detailed, and charitable. Special emphasis is given to the scriptural basis for Catholic doctrines and beliefs.
This book offers a fun and challenging way to see how well you know Catholic teachings, practices, and history. Karl Keating, best-selling author and founder of Catholic Answers, presents a multiple-choice quiz with 100 questions about a wide variety of subjects connected with Catholicism. Each of the 100 intriguing questions gives five possible answers. Only one of the answers is completely correct. The book is laid out in an easy-to-read format with the question and five possible answers on one page, and the analysis of each of the five answers, noting the correct one, on the next page. The questions, and the possible answers, are written with thought, precision, and sometimes a little humor to make for engaging reading. The quiz does not pretend to be comprehensive, but the questions cover multiple areas—doctrines, morals, and customs, as well as historical events and personalities— and should provide your mind and soul with a good workout. This book will be useful for individual or group study.
The open road. To many it means escape, but I wasn't escaping from anything. I traveled more than six thousand miles by plane, train, and bus to walk in unfamiliar country, but I left behind no process server, no posse, no bounty hunter. No one was looking for me, and no one, other than my wife, knew I had left home. I want to see an Italy I hadn't seen before. I wanted to get away from the cares of quotidian life. I wanted sustained, healthy exercise. And I looked for the novelty of the unknown and the unexpected. I found some of each and too much of some. The Cammino di San Benedetto (Way of St. Benedict) lies in the Apennine mountains to the east of Rome. Sometimes dirt, sometimes asphalt, it passes through villages that date to the Middle Ages. It is one of Italy's newest pilgrimage routes, as yet uncrowded and unspoiled. Along the Cammino I found characters as colorful as the fields and serenety as deep as the valleys. I even found out something about myself
Keating explains some of the most common misperceptions and misunderstandings of the Roman Catholic Church.
"This has been the most controversial pontificate in memory. Catholics are taking sides, for and against the pope and each other ... In recent months three best-selling books have appeared criticizing Francis. Are their criticisms warranted, or do they go too far? How are faithful Catholics to understand this pontificate, and what limits, if any, should there be on criticizing a reigning pope? Popular author and apologist Karl Keating examines the claims and counter-claims made by prominent Catholics who have a high opinion of the papacy but -- many of them -- not a high opinion of its current occupant."--Back cover.
Can a reasonable case be made for Catholicism? Maybe even a compelling case? Or does the Catholic argument falter? Does it wilt before critiques from top-notch opponents? Judge for yourself. You don't have to be Catholic or even religious to relish the intellectual sparring that goes on in these pages. Here is high-level controversial writing, culled from Karl Keating's favorite books. Each selection is a forceful exposition of Catholic truth. Most are from the 1930s, all come from English Catholics, and all are aimed at a single antagonist, with the public invited to look over the writer's shoulder. The reader can view the weaknesses and occasional mistakes even of his own champion. These pages are filled with vivid personalities. These were men who knew the Catholic faith and could explain it to others. The individuals against whom they wrote may not have been converted-one or two were, in the long run-but any number of readers of these little-known masterpieces must have found their faith bolstered and their doubts assuaged. The issues covered in these exchanges are still discussed today-but probably nowhere as in as glorious a style as here.
Were Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler wrong? Does Earth orbit the Sun, or does the Sun orbit Earth? For centuries, everyone thought the science was settled, but today the accepted cosmology is being challenged by writers, speakers, and movie producers who insist that science took a wrong turn in the seventeenth century. These new geocentrists claim not only that Earth is the center of our planetary system but that Earth is motionless at the very center of the universe. They insist they have the science to back up their claims, which they buttress with evidence from the Bible and Church documents. But do they have a case? How solid is their reasoning, and how trustworthy are they as interpreters of science and theology? The New Geocentrists examines the backgrounds, personalities, and arguments of the people involved in what they believe is a revolutionary movement, one that will overthrow the existing cosmological order and, as a consequence, change everyone's perception of the status of mankind.
"Whatever I have learned," writes Karl Keating, "I have learned from masters of the craft." In this memoir, the father of the modern Catholic apologetics movement traces his life's work through the wisdom he has borrowed from twenty-five books written by "masters" both famous and obscure. In delightful prose bearing Karl's trademark erudition, precision, and wit, Booked for Life mixes anecdote and reflection with theological observations and prescriptions from nearly forty years engaged in defense of the Faith.
52 odpovedí na bežné mylné predstavy Karl Keating patrí medzi najvýznamnejších súčasných apologétov. Stojí na čele katolíckej organizácie Catholic answers (Katolícke odpovede), ktorá predovšetkým prostredníctvom internetu (www.catholic.com) ponúka kompetentné odpovede na otázky ohľadom katolíckej viery. Jeho kniha môže byť pre slovenského čitateľa prínosom nielen jasne formulovaným obsahom, ale aj živosťou jazyka. Takto to v úvode knihy napísal Mons. Stanislav Stolárik, košický pomocný biskup: „Autor majstrovsky, použitím zrozumiteľného a prístupného slovníka, v zhutnenej odpovedi vždy sprítomnil náuku Cirkvi a ponúkol jednoznačnú odpoveď – aký je pravdivý postoj Cirkvi k danej problematike.“ Nuž ak chcete vedieť niečo viac – čomu katolíci skutočne veria, držíte v rukách tú správnu knihu. Prvé vydanie
