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Jimmy Akin is a Catholic apologist for Catholic Answers who has authored several books on Catholic apologetics, evangelization, liturgy, and controversial issues. He is also a primary contributor to This Rock magazine and has appeared on radio and television defending and explaining the Catholic faith.

Background[]

Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and raised as a Protestant. At the age of 20, he experienced a conversion to Christ and planned on becoming a Protestant minister or seminary professor. In time, Jimmy became affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and was "under care of session" toward becoming a Protestant minister. As Akin explains in Surprised by Truth (Patrick Madrid, ed., Basilica Press, 1994), reprinted as "A Triumph and a Tragedy" in This Rock (April 1995), his attitude began to change when he read a paper written by a convert to Catholicism; a convert who used to attend the same Protestant church where Akin worshiped.

There was one passage in the paper that made me squirm... "Most of the Catholic

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Jimmy Akin

American Catholic apologist

Jimmy Akin
Akin providing a rebuttal during his 2022 debate with Bart Ehrman.
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Jimmy Akin (born in 1965) is an American Catholicapologist. He has been working for Catholic Answers^[2] since 1993, their longest-serving staff member.

Akin is a weekly guest on the national radio program Catholic Answers Live, and regular contributor to Catholic Answers Magazine. Since 2018, Akin has been the co-host of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, a podcast examining mysteries in the areas of the paranormal and true crime.

Biography

Born in 1965 in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jimmy Akin grew up nominally Protestant in Fayetteville, Arkansas. As a child, he attended services at the local Church of Christ with his parents but became interested in the New Age movement as a teenager. During his time in college, Akin encountered the preaching of the televangelistEugen

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Although it didn’t originate with him, one of the arguments which C.S. Lewis is best known for is his “Trilemma”. Who is Jesus? A good teacher or something else? Apologist Jimmy Akin walks us through the various options.

S5E46: “The Trilemma” – After Hours with Jimmy Akin (Download)

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Introduction

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You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something w