“Catholicism: East of Eden”

Catholicism: East of Eden
By Richard Bennett
Banner of Truth, 2010, 336 pages

In this book, ex-priest, Richard Bennett, provides a charitable but uncompromising critique of Roman Catholicism in comparison to God’s Word. Catholicism claims to be the “one true church” but in each chapter Bennett details how the Catholic church strayed from simple faith in Jesus Christ of early Christianity to institutionalized legalism and ritualism. Bennett’s insights into Catholicism as a former Dominican priest are invaluable.

Chapters

1. From Tradition To Truth: A Priest’s Story
2. The Lord Gave His Word: Unshakable Authority
3. The Mystique of the Catholic Priesthood
4. The Papacy: An Overview of Its History and Nature
5. The Papal Claim to Have the Keys of the Apostle Peter
6. Baptism, Confirmation, and the Anointing of the Sick
7. Encounters in the Confession Box
8. The Mass as a Sacrifice
9. Holy Communion
10. The Mystic Plague
11. Images of “Christ” and the Gospel
12. The Biblical Mary and Tradition
13. God’s Institution of Marriage and Rome’s Infringement on It
14. Convent Life
15. Biblical Unity in the Lord
16. The Alignment of New Evangelicals with Catholicism
17. Conclusion

Bennett is founder and director of The Berean Beacon, a ministry to Roman Catholics. Copies of Catholicism East of Eden can be ordered directly from the Berean Beacon or from Amazon.com.

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“Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.” – Genesis 4:16