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How Not to Share Your Faith: The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics and Evangelization is unavailable, but you can change that!

Catholic apologetics is back. It’s everywhere. As a professional apologist, Mark Brumley sees this renaissance as an immensely good thing—an essential part of the Church’s evangelical mission. Even so, grave dangers attend the apologetics renaissance. Some of them are so serious that, left unaddressed, they threaten to undermine the good apologetics can accomplish. Brumley calls these dangers the...

We might call the First Deadly Sin of Catholic Apologetics the Sin of Biting Off More than You Can Chew. Not ordinary gluttony; this is a failure to respect the limits of what apologetics can accomplish. We might also have named this the Deadly Sin of Apologetical Gluttony. What are the limits of apologetics? Subject matter is one. Some things are beyond the human mind’s power to know on its own. Even in the natural order, some mysteries, both scientific and philosophical,
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