Thursday, March 10, 2011

My Books in Protestant College and Seminary Libraries

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One day I was perusing Google Books and checked out (in curiosity) what libraries carried my "officially" published books (it has that feature). It's one of the fun things about being an author. I noticed on this last occasion that several libraries from colleges or seminaries that I knew to be conservative evangelical Protestant were carrying one or more of my books.

This was fascinating to me (and an honor), because it means that these libraries think my book is relatively noteworthy in terms of the Catholic theology (and apologetics defending same) that they differ with (or actively oppose in some cases). After all, if we are in the business of compiling books on theology for a library, we want (given a finite budget) the best available ones to represent schools of thought that we ourselves do not adhere to. In light of that consideration, I take it as a very high compliment, that my books are carried in these libraries.

I list them below. I linked to each school's web page for the libraries, and to the actual page listing my book in any given library, for particular books of mine:


Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA)

[bills itself as "the world's largest Christian university"; founded by Baptist Dr. Jerry Falwell]

The Catholic Verses [see the Google Books library page for this title]


The Catholic Verses
A Biblical Defense of Catholicism [see the Google Books library page for this title]
Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths [see the Google Books library page for this title]


Hope College (Holland, MI)
[affiliated with Reformed Church in America]

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


Harvard University (Divinity School)
[liberal theology and heterodox Protestantism: Unitarianism, etc.]

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


Abilene Christian University (Abilene, TX)
[affiliated with Churches of Christ]

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


Masters Seminary (Sun Valley, CA)
[Baptist; founded by radio preacher Dr. John MacArthur]

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism


Crown College (Saint Bonifacius, MN)
[affiliated with Christian & Missionary Alliance]

The One-Minute Apologist [see the Google Books library page for this title]

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