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Title: Simplistic and ultra-conservative
Review: Like most of the popologists ("pop apologists) at Catholic Answers, Karl Keating has a simplistic and, ironically, an almost fundamentalist approach to Catholicism. Keating holds ultra-conservative views (much like James Akin, Tim Staples, Bob Sungenis, et. al.) and works from the ultra-conservative fringe of non-scholarly Catholicism. This book is consistent with the ultra-conservative Catholic approach. If you simply want to dispel some common fundamentalist misperceptions of Catholicism, then this book is reasonably useful. Otherwise, I would stick with genuine Catholic Biblical scholars like Raymond E. Brown, John P. Meier, and Joseph A. Fitzmyer. While more difficult to read, their scholarship is vastly superior to pseudo-scholars like Keating, and their moderate and orthodox approach to exegesis is refreshing in the recent resurgence of Catholic fundamentalism and biblical literalism that those like Keating advocate.
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