Jimmy Akin
Author of The Fathers Know Best
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 Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Delivers You to Eternal Life (2015) 41 copies
Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says (2018) 32 copies
Justification by Faith and Works?: What the Catholic Church Really Teaches (A Quick Read Book 1) (2016) 7 copies
20 Answers: The Book of Revelation : (Book 50) (20 Answers Series from Catholic Answers) (2022) 6 copies
The Problem of Evil 4 copies
Mormonism: A Catholic Perspective 4 copies
Why You Can Trust the Gospels 2 copies
The Salvation Controversy 2 copies
Civil Rights Breakthrough! 1 copy
The Mysteries of Fatima 1 copy
Beginning Apologetics 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Akin, Jimmy
- Other names
- Akin, James
- Birthdate
- 1965
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- United States of America
- 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.
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Reviews
The Fathers Know Best - Your Essential Guide to the… by Jimmy Akin
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church is a unique resource. It introduces you to the teachings of the first Christians in a way no other work can. It is specially designed to make it easy for you to find the information you want and need.
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 footnotes (Personal peeve) and the index should be a bit more robust to make it easier to find where some examples are addressed.… (more)
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 footnotes (Personal peeve) and the index should be a bit more robust to make it easier to find where some examples are addressed.… (more)
Basic introduction to the Old Testament. Addresses questions of style and why we have the books we have.
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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Statistics
- Works
- 50
- Members
- 1,149
- Popularity
- #22,349
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 40