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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...

prove the doctrine of the Trinity from reason alone, without any appeal to divine revelation. Before he unleashed his argument, I warned him that his success would only lead me to question the Catholic faith. “What do you mean?” he demanded. “Simple,” I said. “The Catholic Church holds the dogma of the Trinity to be an article of faith. And articles of faith, on the Catholic view, are beyond unaided reason’s ability to prove. Therefore, if you could prove, by reason alone, the dogma of the Trinity
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