How can an ordinary Christian know which Church is true without first becoming an expert in Scripture, the Fathers, councils, philosophy, and two thousand years of theological controversy?
He Is Not Far: Why the True Faith Must Be Catholic offers a radically different approach to Catholic apologetics. Rather than attempting to prove every rival position wrong one issue at a time, K. Joseph Rivet asks a more fundamental question: How can the true Church be identified as true in the first place?
Beginning from the transcendence of God and the limits of unaided human reason, Rivet develops the Disjunctive Dominance Argument: when competing claims about divine revelation cannot be independently verified, reason directs us toward the faith in which God has made himself maximally accessible. Christianity uniquely fulfills this principle through the Incarnation; Catholicism fulfills it within Christianity through papal infallibility.
The result is a philosophical yet lay-accessible case for Rome that does not require readers to personally settle every ancient controversy before knowing where to stand.
For Catholics seeking deeper confidence, Protestants and Orthodox Christians examining Rome, and seekers exhausted by seemingly endless theological debate, He Is Not Far offers a new way of approaching the oldest question in Christian apologetics: Which church is true, and why?
