Jimmy Akin
Author of The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church
About the Author
Jimmy Akin is an author and speaker specializing in the defense of the faith. His books include The Salvation Controversy, The Nightmare World of Jack Chick, and The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church. He is a regular guest on Catholic Answers Live and show more blogs at jimmyakin.org and ncregister.com. show less
Series
Works by Jimmy Akin
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church (2010) 311 copies, 2 reviews
The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Delivers You to Eternal Life (2015) 62 copies, 1 review
Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says (2018) 45 copies, 1 review
20 Answers: The Book of Revelation : (Book 50) (20 Answers Series from Catholic Answers) (2022) 8 copies
Justification by Faith and Works?: What the Catholic Church Really Teaches (A Quick Read Book 1) (2016) 8 copies
Mormonism: A Catholic Perspective 3 copies
The Salvation Controversy 2 copies
The Mysteries of Fatima (Disc 1) 2 copies
Why You Can Trust the Gospels 2 copies
bible prophecy 1 copy
The book of Revelation 1 copy
anti catholic myths 1 copy
The Old Testament 1 copy
The End Times 1 copy
THE GOSPELS 1 copy
Beginning Apologetics 1 copy
Protestantism 1 copy
Civil Rights Breakthrough! 1 copy
Did Christ Give Us Priests? 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Akin, Jimmy
- Other names
- Akin, James
- Birthdate
- 1965
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- apologist
- Organizations
- Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers Speakers Bureau - Short biography
- Jimmy Akin is an internationally known author and speaker. As the senior apologist at Catholic Answers, he has more than twenty-five years of experience defending and explaining the Faith.
Jimmy is a convert to the Faith and has an extensive background in the Bible, theology, the Church Fathers, philosophy, canon law, and liturgy.
Jimmy is a weekly guest on the national radio program Catholic Answers Live, a regular contributor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a popular blogger and podcaster. - Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says by Jimmy Akin
Exceptionally readable and engaging work on what can be a very technical and nuanced subject. Akin does a great job of explaining levels of authority within Church teaching, and why they matter. Through many examples and illustrations it gives clear guidance and method for understanding what you "have to believe" as a Catholic.
Brimming with citations, it gives ample gateway to further study on methods or particular doctrines.
My only two criticism would be it uses endnotes instead of show more footnotes (Personal peeve) and the index should be a bit more robust to make it easier to find where some examples are addressed. show less
Brimming with citations, it gives ample gateway to further study on methods or particular doctrines.
My only two criticism would be it uses endnotes instead of show more footnotes (Personal peeve) and the index should be a bit more robust to make it easier to find where some examples are addressed. show less
Jimmy (aka. James) Akin's strongest quality, in addition to his knowledge and high intellectual capacity, is his ability to write clearly and succinctly. As a former Protestant, he understands both the Protestant (especially Calvinist) viewpoints quite well, and articulates them in juxtaposition with the Catholic notion (especially as expounded by Thomas Aquinas).
Although he does not diminish the differences, he explains that many points of contention are misunderstandings often resulting show more from the failure to define terms properly. Akin clarifies these terms and returns to the most debated Bible verses. He then defends the Catholic position using Scripture, history, logic, and common sense.
He also explains how some common sense notions such as "middle salvation" (eg: one man's preaching leads to another's salvation) and "temporal atonement" (eg: returning what was stolen) have been left out of the Protestant vocabulary. The result is that instances in Scripture that refer to these types of salvation are often mistaken for eternal salvation, thus creating more confusion.
Other topics he writes about are penance, indulgences, TULIP, boasting, and ecumenism. My only disappointment is that he only briefly touched on the belief of "eternal security" or "once saved always saved." I would have liked to have seen a whole chapter dedicated to that. Nevertheless, I believe the book still deserves 5 stars. show less
Although he does not diminish the differences, he explains that many points of contention are misunderstandings often resulting show more from the failure to define terms properly. Akin clarifies these terms and returns to the most debated Bible verses. He then defends the Catholic position using Scripture, history, logic, and common sense.
He also explains how some common sense notions such as "middle salvation" (eg: one man's preaching leads to another's salvation) and "temporal atonement" (eg: returning what was stolen) have been left out of the Protestant vocabulary. The result is that instances in Scripture that refer to these types of salvation are often mistaken for eternal salvation, thus creating more confusion.
Other topics he writes about are penance, indulgences, TULIP, boasting, and ecumenism. My only disappointment is that he only briefly touched on the belief of "eternal security" or "once saved always saved." I would have liked to have seen a whole chapter dedicated to that. Nevertheless, I believe the book still deserves 5 stars. show less
In his DVD, The Problem of Evil, Jimmy Akin tackles this most difficult of apologetics questions. He builds a biblical and philosophical case for understanding how God’s perfections are not disproved by the existence of evil, but in fact allow for a world in which pain and sin may be mysteriously ordered by providence towards a greater good.
Akin is always succinct and on point in his writing. Good overview of how we should approach the prophecies of Scripture, and points out common errors.
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- Works
- 58
- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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