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How to Convert to Roman Catholicism
i was influenced by richard borkham's a book on the gospel of john, and also by benedicts are writing about the gospel of John. i tried very hard to write from the point of view of mere christ - any one who can assert the apostles creed. And i tried to get the things we we all believe in common. There was a case for not writing about mary, because mary is an issue that sometimes divides catholics and protestants and orthodox. But then i thought again, this would be grotesque cowardice. I mean, i myself, full disclosure, since the age of about eight or nine, i would say i've asked mary for her