- Learn about the amazing parallels between the crisis of the past
and the crisis within the Church today, and how the Church has dealt with
crisis of faith in the past.
- Learn why truth, God's revealed truth and our belief in it, has
practical consequences for our lives.
- Lean how all this can help us deal successfully with the current
crisis of faith within the Church
- Learn facts that are omitted in college theology courses today.
Catholics need to equip themselves with
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Adam Miller. Adam Miller is one of the best theological and historical
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