Anti-Catholicism:

A. Topics:

    Dispensationalism (theory behind belief in the pre-tribulation, pre-millennial return of Christ, "rapture," etc. found in Tim 
    LaHaye's Left Behind series, and traced back through C.I. Scofield's "Reference Bible" to the ideas of John Nelson Darby)

Critique of Tim LaHaye's Left Behind, by Carl Olson ***
Critique of Dispensationalism's concept of the "rapture", by Carl Olson ***
Anti-Catholics Behind the Best-selling Left Behind Books, by Carl Olson ****
The Rapture (Karl Keating, Catholic Answers) *****
The Rapture Trap, by Paul Thigpen, reviewed by Carl Olson (The Catholic Faith) ****
Five Myths About the Rapture, by Carl Olson (Crisis Magazine)

    Fundamentalist and evangelical Anti-Catholicism (popular sources)

Alexander Hislop and Ralph Woodrow ****
Loraine Boettner ****
Religious Anti-Catholicism (anti-Catholic links)
Chick Tracts: Their Origin and Refutation (Jimmy Akin, Catholic Answers): *****
Part 1: The Nightmare World of Jack T. Chick
Part 2:  Who Is Jack T. Chick?
Part 3: Who Was Alberto Rivera?
Part 4: Jack T. Chick's Gallery of Anti-Catholic Tracts
Part 5: Answering Chick Tracts
Part 6:: Conclusion

    The American background 

The cultural assumptions of American revivalist Christianity (review of Mark Noll's Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by P. Blosser)

B. Books:

    Historical sources:

Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians," by Karl Keating *****
History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, by William Cobbett **** (a 19th century Anglican journalist discovers the grim facts about the origins of Protestantism in his country)
The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists, by Karl Keating ***

    Contemporary issues:

Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice, ed. Robert P. Lockwood (Center for Media and Public Affairs) *****
The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice, by Philip Jenkins ***
What Catholics Really Believe--Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Catholic Faith, by Karl Keating ***
Will Catholics be "Left Behind"? by Carl Olson

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