Written for a wide audience, this book addresses common questions about God, Jesus, faith, reason, the Bible and many related topics. The goal—as a lay apologist and a Catholic priest—is to hone in on essential points and details within the larger contexts of disagreements and debates that have been around for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Father Spitzer and Carl Olson hope that the parrhesia—the bold confidence and resolve—of faith will indeed be matched by a corresponding and complementary boldness of reason.

Has science disproved God? Can the existence of God be proven? Is faith blind and childish? Is belief in the Trinity rational? Are the Gospels mythical? Did Paul invent Christianity? What do we really know about the Resurrection?

These are some of the many questions addressed in this accessible and engaging work of Catholic apologetics. Drawing on the authors’ vast experience and studies in theology, philosophy, science, and history, this book engages with the thought and claims of famous skeptics.

This book is ideal for both Catholics and non-Catholics wishing to know more about essential Catholic beliefs, as well as high school, college, and catechetical students seeking to better respond to challenging questions about the Catholic Faith.

“An invaluable reference guide on some of the main controversies in apologetics.” 
—Edward Feser, Author, Five Proofs of the Existence of God

 “I can’t think of any tool more useful than this book by two men who have been refuting atheism for years. Read this once, and never again be hesitant to answer ‘the most asked questions.’ “
—Karl Keating, Author, Catholicism and Fundamentalism

“A brilliant refutation of the agnosticism of modern culture. It establishes that God can be known and is known in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I cannot recommend this text more highly!” 
—Larry Chapp, Author, Confessions of a Catholic Worker

“Thoroughly enjoyable. There is no dry casuistry but an engagement with flesh and blood people, their ideas and historical forces, while the wisdom of Aquinas and other great Doctors of the Church bubbles below the surface, providing the infrastructure that carries the argument.”
—Tracey Rowland, Chair of Theology, University of Notre Dame (Australia)

“Apologist Olson and priest/scientist Spitzer have produced a book that dismantles the doubters, subverts the sentimentalists, and educates the ignorant. Indispensable for all who are truly searching.”
—Fr Dwight Longenecker, Author, More Christianity: Finding the Fullness of the Faith

“This book is brain surgery for a culture that doesn't even know how to think about truth and science. It goes straight for the jugular, showing that faith has absolutely nothing to fear from serious questions.”
—Marcus Peter, President, Ave Maria Communications 

“A superb work of apologetics that defends our embattled Catholic faith against the manifold fallacies of atheism, skepticism, scientism and rationalism with cogency and elan. It deserves an honored place beside the works of Newman, Knox, Chesterton, Kreeft, Sheed and Schall."
—Edward Short, Author, Newman and his Contemporaries

“In this lovely book the authors demonstrate that the usual skeptical questions about the Catholic faith have profound answers that have been worked out over centuries."
—David Deavel, Associate Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas

“This is apologetics at its best: serious argument drawn from philosophy, history, and science, carried in prose that stays brisk and never talks down to the reader.”
—David Deane, Ph.D., Academic Dean, Atlantic School of Theology

“Too often we learn to look at the world with one eye and at faith with the other. Olson and Spitzer help bring both eyes to bear on the same reality. This book is a welcome vision check.”
—Joseph Martin, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, Montreat College