Answering the Anti-Catholic Challenge:

A response to Ray Galea’s “Nothing in my hand I bring”

Edited by Robert M. Haddad

Paperback

ISBN: 9781921421563

$29.95 rrp

Release Date: April 24, 2012

Answering the Anti-Catholic Challenge is an emphatic reply to an anti-Catholic attack launched in 2007 by Ray Galea, a former Catholic now minister in the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney. Galea’s book, Nothing in my hand I bring, was a public and systematic attempt to debunk “every ‘distinctive’ teaching of Roman Catholicism” for allegedly undermining “the person and work of the Lord Jesus” (p. 20). Written initially in anticipation of World Youth Day ’08, Galea’s book has become a best seller among Protestants both in Australia and overseas. In response, ten Catholics have banded together to provide a virtual word-by-word response to each and every one of Galea’s claims, establishing in the process the Biblical basis for all the principal teachings of Catholicism while exposing the deficiency of Galea’s book. Answering the Anti-Catholic Challenge is an essential resource for all Catholics who wish to strengthen their knowledge of their faith and win over the sincere and good-willed to the fullness of Christ’s truth.


"There is always a temptation, especially to young minds with an urge to purity, to translate shock at the failings of institutions and people into a return to an alleged doctrinal purity. Young Catholics unsure of their faith can find attractive the appeal of an apparent return to the unadorned scriptures. So there is a recurring need to explain in straightforward terms the Catholic story of the continuity of Catholic faith with scriptural tradition. Robert Haddad and his co-authors have laid out that story with clarity and force. It deserves attentive reading by all who deal with the challenge of Evangelicalism."  - From the Foreword by Professor James Franklin


Chapters:
Growing Up Catholic            David Collits     
Which Catholicism?             Zachary Vemeer                                  
Christ and the Mass             Robert Haddad                                          
The Bible and the Church    Daniel Miller                                      
The Way of Salvation           Thomas Waugh                                            
It’s Just Grace                       Glenn Bolas                                    
Mary                                       Kiran Newman                                   
It Is Finished                          Thomas Kwok                                                 
The New Catholicism           David Schutz              


About the Authors
The authors are a collection of ‘cradle Catholics’ or converts highly enthusiastic about their faith and keen about apologetics. Most have also had contact with the University of Sydney Catholic Chaplaincy and its work providing the Catholic Faith and culture on the secular university campuses in Sydney. It is hoped this book will assist in its on-going work with Catholics and non-Catholics alike.