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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...

in your name? Did we not cast out demons in your name?” (cf. Matt. 7:22), can be damned, we should not think, “Did we not make converts in your name? Did we not fashion the best apologetics arguments?” will get us far. Indeed, the more we know, the higher the standard by which we will be judged. “To whom much is given,” Jesus says, “much will be required” (cf. Luke 12:48). A general spiritual danger all Christians face, which can become more acute for the apologist (not to mention the theologian),
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