Dave Armstrong
Dr. Scott Hahn:
Thanks again for the great
work you're doing for Christ and His Church. The Lord clearly has you right
where He wants you.
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.:
I highly recommend his work,
A
Biblical Defense of Catholicism, which I find to be thoroughly orthodox,
well-written, and effective for the purpose of making Catholic truth more
understandable and accessible to the public at large.
Patrick Madrid:
I admire, as ever, your fantastic
and penetrating work for Christ and His Church.
Marcus Grodi:
You utterly amaze me! Such
good stuff . . . Dave, keep up your effective and eternally valuable apologetic
journalism!
Fr. Ray Ryland
God bless you in your indefatigable
labors on behalf of the Faith! Only God knows how many lives your efforts
have touched with the truth.
Mark Shea
I think you have one of the
best sites on the web. It's so amazingly thorough I'm dazzled at the incredible
work you've put into it! Way to go!
Dr. Ray Guarendi (Catholic
family psychologist)
I respect so much of what
you do.
Australian Catholic Priest
It is due to converts like
yourself that I can realise even more fully that our Catholic Faith is
eminently defensible and that we can hold our own in the intellectual world.
25 years of apologetics experience in active outreach and writing (10 as an evangelical Protestant and 15 as a Catholic). My Protestant apologetics in the 1980s included research on heresies such as Jehovah's Witnesses, campus missionary activity from 1985-1989, much street evangelism, and pro-life work. I have a thorough understanding of Protestantism because I fervently defended it myself (and still respect much of it).
I have written 12 books (see my Books Page). Two are published by Sophia Institute Press (A Biblical Defense of Catholicism and The Catholic Verses: 95 Bible Passages That Confound Protestants), and I also wrote half of the apologetic inserts for The New Catholic Answer Bible (published by Our Sunday Visitor). Another book, More Biblical Evidence for Catholicism, is published by AuthorHouse. The first three books are often under 50,000 sales rank on amazon.com and either in the Amazon Top 100 or sometimes even Top 50 bestsellers for the category of Catholic Theology.
My website, Biblical Evidence for Catholicism (begun in March 1997), is the most extensive, wide-ranging, multi-faceted Catholic apologetics website on the Internet, bar none, with over 1,000 posted papers. I dare say that probably no one has written as much Catholic and general Christian apologetics in the last fifteen years as I have. The almost ubiquitous "presence" on the Internet (i.e., in apologetics circles) of my papers is illustrated in how high many of my pages come up in Google searches. My site also won the "Catholic website of the year" award from Envoy Magazine in 1998.
My blog, Cor ad cor loquitur ("Heart speaks to heart"), begun in February 2004, receives almost 600 hits a day as of this writing. According to The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, which ranks blogs by numbers of links (not by hits), my blog is currently in the top 6% of all blogs listed. Furthermore, it's in the top 23% of the Christian blogs listed in the sub-group Blogdom of God.
My conversion story has been published in the top-selling Catholic apologetics book of our time, Surprised by Truth (1994; edited by Patrick Madrid) - more than 300,000 copies sold. It had appeared earlier (1993) in This Rock magazine, and a second, longer account was the cover story for The Coming Home Journal in December 1997.
Several of my individual web pages are without question the most (or among the most) extensive on the Internet, in numbers of links and/or articles, including pages on John Henry Cardinal Newman, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., Development of Doctrine, Protestantism, Anti-Catholicism, Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, Justification, the Papacy, The Blessed Virgin Mary, and others.
I particularly specialize in dialogues, and currently have posted 353 dialogues on the Internet, with all sorts of friendly opponents, including folks from all the major denominations or schools of Protestantism, theological liberals, self-described Catholic "traditionalists", Orthodox, Jews, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, agnostics and atheists, homosexuals, vegetarians, . . . you name it.
My public "live" teaching experience encompasses many years of leading ecumenical group discussions in my home, various small group teaching settings, and national and local radio appearances, including Catholic Answers Live [follow the link to hear me], Faith and Family Live (Steve Wood), and Kresta in the Afternoon.
I have many published articles in the leading Catholic apologetics magazines, including This Rock (six times), The Catholic Answer (also six), Envoy (twice: cover story on the Eucharist in February 2000, and feature on my apostolate in Spring 2002), and The Coming Home Journal (eleven occasions). My website was positively reviewed in Envoy and New Covenant (August 1998), and I received good reviews for my books A Biblical Defense of Catholicism (May 2004) and The Catholic Verses (October 2005), from Michael J. Miller, in Homiletic & Pastoral Review. The latter was also reprinted in Ignatius Insight. Dr. Stan Williams reviewed The Catholic Verses on the prominent website Catholic Exchange (6-24-05). Additionally, Our Sunday Visitor published my tract, Top Ten Questions Catholics Are Asked, which has been selling very well. Another paper of mine, The Imitation of Mary, was reprinted in chapter 5 of The Catholic Answer Book of Mary (Our Sunday Visitor: 2000). For more details on all of this, see my Literary Resume page.
I have received recommendations from many of the leading figures in Catholic apologetics (including Forewords for my first two published books by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., and Scott Hahn) -- some cited above. See near the bottom of my Resume or Books pages for further details.
