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Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Laying the Foundation: A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics and Fundamental Theology is a classic text by the late Fr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, a highly respected author, professor, and theologian of the twentieth century. “This book appeared in 1942 under the rather unimposing title We Stand with Christ: an Essay in Catholic Apologetics. It should have become a classic,” writes Scott Hahn in the...

. Since apologetics sets out to explain and to demonstrate that “Catholic dogma is rationally credible as divine revelation,” it is absolutely necessary that we know at the very outset in what sense Catholic teaching claims to have been revealed. Naturally, Catholic dogma is intellectually acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the same has come from God in the very manner claimed. When we can adduce certain evidence
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