homeschoolmom Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 I read "Catholic and Christian" by Alan Schreck and "Unabridged Christianity" by fr. Mairo P. Romero. I avoided Scott Hahn like the plague at first... He seemed rather condescending in his videos. I love his books now, though. My husband read lots of Catholic scholars, the CCC and papal encyclicals. Then we reread the New Testament aloud together (a book at a time), trying to get the bigger picture and it seemed Catholic to us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 C.S Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Apr 19 2004, 05:58 PM'] C.S Lewis [/quote] I've never read anything by C.S. Lewis, isn't that sad! I was just thinking about that earlier.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Apr 20 2004, 04:43 AM'] I've never read anything by C.S. Lewis, isn't that sad! I was just thinking about that earlier.. [/quote] My favorite book of his is a novel, "'Til We Have Faces." I need to read that again ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitlin Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 C.S. Lewis is great, though I'm mainly familiar with Narnia! Tolkien -- though he's a bit dry -- is also a great read and his works are absolutely peppered in Catholic symbolism and theology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drforjc Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Jessica, Hardon's Catholic Catechism was crucial for me, too. I had never seen the historical evidence for the constant teaching of the Church before. The Hahn/Madrid/etc stuff wasn't available back then-- I converted in 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twf Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I also read "Rome Sweet Home". It was great! Catholic Answers (catholic.com), Scripture Catholic (scripturecatholic.com) and other sites like Catholicoutlook.com were important as well. I listend to several audio files, including Scott Hahn's conversion and the Mass Explained (both from catholicity.com, though it seems you can't listen to these online anymore), and several EWTN broadcasts, especially with Tim Staples (one on baptism, one on Sola Scriptura, one on justification and perhaps a couple others). The audio files on Sola Scriptura and justification were especially helpful. Iron_Monk, as he is known around here, was instrumental in the whole process...he's the one who got me started on my journey to Catholicism (or I should say, God used him to get me started) when I use to post on Mount Biblical Sense (an MSN group) a couple years a go. I read many articles and such along the way, but I think one of the best (and unfortuantly not that well know, it seems) things I read was the e-book "A Biblical Defense of Catholicism" by Dave Armstrong. I HIGHLY recommend this book. He is a convert as well, and does an INCREDIBLE job of explaining, from a Biblical perspective, justification, indulgences, penance, the idea of sacraments, the papacy (especially looking at the ramifications of Matthew 16 and the Keys to the Kingdom), and more. Go to [url="http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZINDEX.HTM"]http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZINDEX.HTM[/url]. That's Dave's site. (It's a great site too, many indepth dialogues and articles). You can order his books from there (just by sending him an email, if you want the .doc format, which is a lot cheaper than actually ordering the paperback). God bless, Tyler Note: I'm not actually a Catholic, technically speaking, yet. I've been fully convinced that the Catholic Church is the church that Jesus established since early January of this year...but the local priest (and I can see the wisdom in it...) wants me to wait a bit, to get to know the Church better. Isn't waiting hard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=8925"]This Open Mic thread[/url] has some other reading resources; some of them were mentioned, I'm sure, in this thread, but others may not have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlaiseW Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 The Lord of the Rings. When I finally came back to the Church, my heartfelt love for Tolkien had made Her so familiar to me - I recognised everything I saw. Lewis helped too with his take-no-prisoners polemic, but it was the pre-evangelism of Tolkien that really made the difference. The other stuff I read, oddly enough, was a bucketload of the Protestant resources on the web, mostly about Christian ethics. I was convinced of the truth of the evil of contraception long before I believed in God. This goes to show that God can use whatever we give Him. I started reading it just to see how stupid all those Christians really were, but it didn't have the required effect. And then I started praying to the Holy Spirit and all [i]my[/i] plans went pear-shaped from then on :-). Blaise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 THere is a really cool book out the Question of God which contrasts the pesssimistic world-view of Freud and christian world -view of C S Lewis. If you see it you might enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpusDei Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 I read a book by Peter Kreeft called "Catholic Christianity", which is based on the cathechism of the Catholic Church. Very good, its almost like a Complete Idiots guide to what catholics believe. Some of the books you mentioned, I read a bit later like Patrik Madrid and Scott Hahn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 I read that book too, Opus Dei. It is very good, a great companion to the Catechism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Cube Posted May 16, 2004 Share Posted May 16, 2004 [list] [*]The Lord of the Rings [*]The Will to Power* [*]The Anti-Christ* [*]The Bible [/list] * Yeah, I know, youi want to know which books [b]helped[/b] me on my journey. Reading Nietzsche really did help, tihough. I read the Bible to understand what he was arguing against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleflower+JMJ Posted May 17, 2004 Author Share Posted May 17, 2004 welcome mr. cube! to phatmass! :tiphat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 The [b]apologia pro vita sua[/b] of John Henry Cardinal Newman is good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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