Robert Sungenis - Biography

Biography

Robert Sungenis was raised in a Catholic family, but became a Protestant Christian at age nineteen. He held various posts (e.g., elder, preacher, adult Sunday school director) in several Protestant churches including a two-year employment under prophecy teacher Harold Camping of Family Radio. He obtained his B.A. in Religion from George Washington University in 1979, and an M.A. in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1982. Sungenis obtained a Ph.D. in 2006 from the Calamus International University, a private distance-learning institution in Vanuatu which is noted according to Sungenis "for its academic freedom and alternative science and religious curriculum". His 700-page dissertation was on the subject of geocentrism and was then edited and published as the two-volume set, Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right.

Sungenis returned to Catholicism in 1992 at the age of thirty-seven. In 1994 he was the principal author of a book critiquing the eschatological views of Harold Camping. The story of his conversion to Catholicism is chronicled in the first of the Surprised By Truth books edited by Catholic apologist and author Patrick Madrid. He has debated many Protestant apologists, including James R. White, Dave Hunt, Michael Horton, Robert Godfrey, Matt Slick and Robert Zins on doctrinal, theological, and historical issues such as sola scriptura, the papacy and papal infallibility, transubstantiation and the Mass, salvation and justification. He is the author of twenty books and over 100 published articles on theology and science. In the past, his articles were published in Our Sunday Visitor, The Catholic Answer, Catholic Faith and Family, The Coming Home Journal, Envoy Magazine, This Rock, Catholic Family News, The Remnant, Latin Mass Magazine and reviews of his work appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Touchstone Magazine, Culture Wars magazine and at Salon.com.

He has also begun his own non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and publishing company, Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc.