Book Review: Nuts and Bolts by Tim Staples
A brief break from my review my summer vacation reading. There are still two more books left to review. I got this book in the mail yesterday as a thank you for a donation I made to a Catholic apologetics organization.
It's a short enough book that I decided to polish off today. It's last page is numbered 134, but the first page of the actual text itself is numbered 12. Despite that, it deals with how to explain and defend a number of Catholic doctrines using the Bible. Among the topics covered:
* how to explain the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit to Jehovah's Witnesses
* "Once Saved, Always Saved" is unbiblical
* the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
* the necessity of Baptism
* why statues of saints are permissible
* Confession to a priest
* the Papacy
* the non-Existence of the "Great Apostasy" claimed by the Mormons
among others.
Staples, a former Protestant, writes this book in the form of hypothetical conversations with people of varying bents who don't accept a certain Catholic teaching. He, no doubt, based them on conversations he had with family and friends during after his journey home to the Catholic Church. It's an overview, but still a good resource that will help people better understand the Biblical basis for Catholic teachings and hopefully make them more open to the truth of Catholicism.