Think and Believe

by Frederick W. Marks

Publisher:

Emmaus Road

, 2012

Overview

A coherent, forceful, and compelling case for God and the church founded by Jesus of Nazareth. This is a remarkable achievement of solid, factual information that is loaded with ammunition for the new evangelization and contains colorful vignettes of historic moments alternating with sustained argument. Frederick Marks challenges the reader to set aside long-held assumptions and prejudices. Jesus is the only one who proclaimed himself sinless and the only one who ever claimed to be God. His followers converted an entire empire without resort to violence, and after winning Rome they not only gave the world its calendar but transformed pagan culture beyond recognition. These hard, cold facts are presented here with copious notes for easy identification of persons, events, or doctrines that may be unfamiliar. The reader will also find a detailed index and useful appendices.

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Key Features

• Challenges the reader to set aside prejudices and examine the facts
• Discusses the argument for Christ with vibrant historical examples
• Looks at the bold statements made by Christ and examines their impact

Contents

• The Case for God
• The Case for God’s Word
• The Case for Christ
• The Case for Christ’s Church
• More Blueprints
• Highs and Lows in Papal History
• You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
• The Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Trial of Galileo
• The Church: Ever Ancient, Ever New

Top Highlights

“Ultimately, it is intangibles that shape one’s outlook on life. How we react to illness and adversity, how we handle success, whether we are cheerful or morose, kind or cruel—it all depends on an immaterial ‘larger picture.’” (Page 1)

“Where, one wonders, are the Damiens and Kolbes in the annals of non-belief? Skeptics such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso, and Alfred Charles Kinsey were notably cold. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist. Historians Paul Johnson and E. Michael Jones, in chronicling the private lives of leftist paragons, have shown how cruel they were in relation to kith and kin, and how unhappy.²⁰ Nietzsche, who pronounced God dead, died in an insane asylum. Virginia Woolf, who saw ‘something obscene’ in a ‘person sitting by the fire believing in God,’ committed suicide, as did Hitler and a great many others who turned their back on religion.” (Page 10)

“So, too, with man. If he has a maker—and we will argue that he does—then he stands to benefit from reading the owners’ manual, commonly known as the Bible.” (Page 4)

“We know from the physical world that the value of an object depends on knowing the intent of its maker” (Page 4)

“If God does not exist, one has little to lose by living the life of a believer. But if he does exist and one refuses to acknowledge him as Lord, life in the next world could be gravely disappointing.” (Page 14)

Product Details

• Title: Think and Believe
• Author: Frederick W. Marks
• Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 242

About Frederick W. Marks

Frederick W. Marks is an American historian and Catholic apologist. As a scholar, he has written and taught extensively on American diplomatic history. As a proponent of Roman Catholicism, he has written dozens of articles and tracts, and spoken extensively in public. Marks attended Loyola High School in New York City, attained his BA from Holy Cross College in 1962 and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1968. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1967–1968, at Purdue University from 1968–1973, and at St. John’s University from 1974–1979. He is also the author of The Gift of Pain.