A Critical Analysis of Karl Keating and His Book The New Geocentrists

By Dr. Robert Sungenis · 2015 · ISBN 978-1-939856-12-8

Karl Keating, founder of Catholic Answers, wrote The New Geocentrists against the modern geocentrists and against Robert Sungenis in particular. This is the reply. It works through Keating's 355 pages in more than a hundred numbered topics, quoting him and answering each one in turn, and counts 111 errors, many of which Sungenis argues are deliberate rather than careless.

The topics run well past cosmology. Alongside the aether, stellar parallax, the Doppler effect, satellites and the geocentric prize challenge, Sungenis takes up Keating's handling of Giordano Bruno, of papal infallibility, of the silence or consensus of the Church Fathers, and of the conspiracy-theory charges Keating brings against him. He also defends the Catholics Keating names and his own credibility, which he says was Keating's primary target. After the book appeared, Sungenis and Christopher Ferrara each challenged Keating to a formal debate and both were declined, so the analysis stands in place of one.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Topic 1: Keating: On the Wrong Track, Thanks to Curtis Wilson
  3. Topic 2: Bruno Burned Beyond Recognition
  4. Topic 3: "Tantamount to Infallible" is Fallible
  5. Topic 4: Nicolaus Schoenberg: The Odd Man Out
  6. Topic 5: Copernicus Had an "In" with the Inquisition?
  7. Topic 6: Let's Use the Papal Infallibility Card
  8. Topic 7: Bellarmine Wrong: Church Fathers Silent, says Keating
  9. Topic 8: You Appear to Appear that you Side with Appearances
  10. Topic 11: That Darned Aether. I Know I Left it Here Somewhere
  11. Topic 20: Doppler is Not So Popular
  12. Topic 25: What in Carnation Holds up those Pesky Satellites?
  13. Topic 32: Gee, Only a $1,000 Geocentric Challenge?
  14. Topic 41: The Phenomenon of Phenomenal Language

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