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"Catholic Answers" – Its Genesis
Patrick Madrid recently directed me to a story by Karl Keating describing how “Catholic Answers” was born. According to Mr. Keating, it was born when he decided to print tracts and put them on the windshields of cars of a local Christian church that had similarly pamphleted the windshields of cars at his own, Roman,…
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Responding to Karl Keating
My posts are timely, if nothing else. Back in 1987, at the Bayview Baptist Church, Karl Keating engaged in a debate against Peter Ruckman. Keating hasn’t done a lot of debates since then (that I can find a record of, at any rate), so perhaps despite the passage of 24 years, this reply will still…
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Response to Nick Regarding Spiral Argument and Private Judgment
Nick has provided a response to my rebuttal of Karl Keating’s “Spiral Argument” (link). Nick wrote: “I think you should distinguish between private judgment and a circular argument. Each of those terms correspond to different issues.” That’s true. They do often correspond to different issues. The come together, however, because the spiral argument employs private…
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No Escape from Circularity for Karl Keating
One common attack used by the apologists of Rome is to assert that a Protestant’s ultimate authority is private judgment or, as they sometimes pejoratively label as being “protestant personalism” or a person being his own “mini-pope.” Supposedly, this problem of private judgment is solved by referring to an infallible magisterium. In fact, however, the…