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Encouragement, Style and Substance: A Review of ‘Blue-Collar Apologetics’
Blue-Collar Apologetics
How to Explain and Defend Catholic Teaching Using Common Sense, Simple Logic, and the Bible
By John Martignoni
EWTN Publishing, 2021
336 pages, $19.95
To order: EWTNRC.com
Back in my college days, our Catholic apologetics professor advised us students, “Don’t argue on someone else’s playing field. Argue on your own.” It’s great advice, and it is very much a message in John Martignoni’s exceptional new book, Blue-Collar Apologetics: How to Explain and Defend Catholic Teaching Using Common Sense, Simple Logic, and the Bible.
As the founder and president of the Bible Christian Society, Martignoni has conducted hundreds of talks, seminars and interviews in various radio and television media, including EWTN. It is clear that his book is the fruit of much research and thousands of conversations and, yes, arguments.
While the book contains chapters addressing Eastern Orthodoxy and atheism, the majority of the book regards Protestantism. It is a simple read, yet one of the most comprehensive refutations of the errors of Protestantism I’ve ever come across.
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Thanks for joining us today as we continue our Friday series examining Catholic apologist, John Martignoni’s book, “A Blue Collar Answer to Protestantism: Catholic Questions Protestants Can’t Answer” (2023). This week, Martignoni continues his 30-part “Questions Protestants Can’t Answer” section with Question #8:
Questions Protestants Can’t Answer #8: Was the Flesh That Jesus Gave for the Life of the World Real or Symbolic?
The Roman Catholic church teaches that the priest officiating at mass transubstantiates (changes) bread wafers and wine into the actual body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ and that consuming the Jesus wafer and Jesus wine* confer graces that help the supplicant to avoid temptation and sin so as to hopefully merit salvation at the moment of death. So important is receiving the Jesus wafer in RC theology that the Catholic Catechism refers to it as “the source and summit of the Christian life.”1 The RCC bases the above on a literalist misinterpretation of John 6:22-71 (The Bread of Life Discourse) and the Last Supper accounts in the three Synoptic Gospels. Protestants interpret Jesus’ words in those texts as symbolic.
Martignoni’s Argument
Martignoni’s argument proceeds as follows:
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