Debating James White: Shocking Failures of the "Undefeatable" Anti-Catholic Champion
James White is the leading anti-Catholic apologist today — Reformed Baptist, prolific debater, the man who wrote The Roman Catholic Controversy. This book gathers twelve substantive written exchanges between Dave Armstrong and White, plus critiques of White’s published anti-Catholic work, into one polemic and patient cross-examination.
Subtitled Shocking Failures of the “Undefeatable” Anti-Catholic Champion, the book leans into the gap between White’s debate reputation and what his arguments actually look like in writing. Armstrong’s premise is straightforward: White ducks written, back-and-forth, substantive exchanges in favor of live debate, where one-liners and theatrics dominate. Put the same arguments on paper, where every claim is footnoted, and the picture changes.
395 pages of detailed engagement — for readers who want to see the strongest anti-Catholic apologetic dismantled at the textual level, not at sound-bite range. Armstrong’s most extensive published work taking on one named opponent, and the canonical Catholic response to White’s apologetic project.
Inside this book
- Twelve full back-and-forth written debates between Armstrong and James White
- Critiques and refutations of White’s anti-Catholic books and articles
- The Reformed Baptist apologetic against transubstantiation, the papacy, Mary, justification, and more — dismantled at the textual level
- A case study in the difference between live-debate theatrics and substantive written exchange
- Armstrong’s most extensive engagement with a single named opponent