In short, straightforward, and unsentimental chapters, kreeft covers all the key areas for understanding and developing. Peter and paul church, naperville, il dec 10, 2012. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at boston college and has written many fantastic books about the catholic faith, philosophy, current moral issues and more. Peter kreeft symbol or substance a dialogue on the eucharist with c. Pocket handbook of christian apologetics peter kreeft.
Fortunate the young people into whose hands falls this book. Peter kreefts most popular book is handbook of christian apologetics. Lead 10 weird but wonderful book recommendations from the super successful author tim ferriss rounds up an intriguingly offbeat reading list from those who have achieved great things. Why bad things happen to good people turns many people away from god because they dont understand the reason for suffering and blame god for not stopping it. While discussing our current reads, i mentioned peter kreefts recommended. Kreefts socrates reflects what the historical philosopher would likely have made of kants ideas, while also recognizing the greatness, genius, and insightfulness of kant. To save your soul, you must opt out of the culture of death.
Curious chapter titles no doubt, and yet, each offer more than ample insights to ruminate upon. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are. Peter kreeft uses scripture to provide gods profound answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life, their own identities, overcoming failure and temptation, the mystery of gods love, and much more. Now, in summa philosophica, kreeft employs the medieval quaestio debate format used so successfully by st. All book club genres sorting by best selling this month book lists. He is an alumnus of calvin college ab 1959 and fordham university ma 1961, ph. Here is a book to help you understand your faith more fully and to explain it to others more winningly. The socratic dialogues, some books by mortimer adler, your own titles on logic and st. As a philosopher, kreeft makes understanding philosophy easy via a creative conversational format that lets us listen in on fictional conversations between socrates and other philosophical giants. Jun 02, 2017 love is stronger than death by philosopher peter kreeft ph. The 100 most interesting questions hes ever been asked. In twelve short, socratic dialogues peter kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure.
Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including the best things in life, the journey, how to win the culture war and, with ronald tacelli, handbook of christian apologetics. I got to share many conversations with the wise, witty, and wondrous philosopher. He is a regular contributor to several christian publications and is the author of over 45 books. Discount prices on books by peter kreeft, including titles like doors in the walls of the world. Peter kreeft s most popular book is handbook of christian apologetics. One of the big highlights of last weekends defending the faith conference was meeting dr. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they are not good at praying but. The book is set up logically, but you can browse throughout the text and everything makes perfect sense. A convert to roman catholicism, he is the author of over eighty books on christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. Peter kreefts conversion to catholicism part 1 a talk given at sts. Kreeft considers all the fundamental elements of christianity and catholicism, explaining, defending and showing their relevance to our life and the worlds yearnings. If you bought all 27 volumes in the logos peter kreeft bundle. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. Peter kreeft, professor of philosophy at boston college and prolific author, has spoken and written on the topic of beauty for decades.
As a theologian, he tackles the tough doctrines of angels, demons, heaven, hell, suffering, prayer and many more, giving the biblical. He is a convert to the catholic church from reformed protestantism. Augustines press, socratic logic, an ocean full of angels, the philosophy of jesus, jesusshock, the sea within, i surf therefore i am, if einstein had been a surfer, and the first two volumes of this series, socrates children. Books by peter kreeft author of handbook of christian apologetics. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries, and educational institutions in the eastern united states. Have you ever been asked what the catholic church believes about.
He instead proposed 26 books, stretched over genres, with another 15 bonus titles. May 22, 2003 in this book youll find answers to questions about faith and reason the existence of god creation and evolution predestination and free will miracles the problem of evil christ and the resurrection the reliability of the bible life after death heaven and hell salvation and other religions objective truth the pocket handbook of christian. The hypocrisy of catholics is a very strong argument for the infallibility of the church peter kreeft. Peter kreeft phone, address, background info whitepages.
He is a regular contributor to several christian publications, is in wide demand as a speaker. Kreeft considers all the fundamental elements of christianity and catholicism, explaining, defending and showing their relevance to our life and the worlds. Hundreds of answers to crucial questions, and making sense out of suffering, and more on. Bibles historical reality, christianity and other religions, and objective truth. This transcript is reprinted with permission from peter kreeft. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. The book is set up so you can read one or two or ten or fifty pages at a time. The philosophy of jesus peter kreeft ebooks catolicos. Here is a list of peter kreefts recommended philosophy books.
Making sense out of suffering is a remarkable book in explaining suffering from a christian point of view. Peter kreeft is a catholic apologist, professor of philosophy at boston college and the kings college, and author of over 45 books including fundamentals of the faith, everything you ever wanted to know about heaven, and back to virtue. These volumes bring kreefts years of research, debate, and counseling experience to bear on tough concepts, with a consistently clear and concise voice that is very much his own. Peter kreeft offers simple but profound advice and practical steps for developing a prayer life based on the timetested wisdom of the saints and great spiritual writers, especially the principles found in brother lawrences classic the practice of the presence of god. Aug 17, 2014 how to read the bible peter kreeft quietwatersmedia. Peter kreeft born march 16 1937 is a professor of philosophy at boston college. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. First, peter kreeft imitated the socratic dialogue form to put socrates in conversation with jesus, hume, descartes, kant, and machiavelli. He is careful throughout to pick books that are relevant in todays times, formative, and accessible for everyone even if challenging. Jan 19, 2018 in a lecture given at immaculata classical academy, dr.
Check out his own a summa of the summa as a starting point. Peter kreeft is a philosopher, theologian, and apologist. Lewis representing christianity and aldous huxley representing. The result of their dialogues is a helpful, highly readable, even amusing book, useful for beginner as well as master. How many of peter kreefts recommended books have you read. Kreeft gives his top two must read recommendations from different categories for a total of 26 books.
In this book youll find answers to questions about faith and reason the existence of god creation and evolution predestination and free will miracles the problem of evil christ and the resurrection the reliability of the bible life after death heaven and hell salvation and other religions objective truth the pocket handbook of christian. Handbook of christian apologetics peter kreeft, ronald k. Peter kreeft brings his unique insights to this most important area of our spiritual lives. Kreeft recommends using a book that provides commentary to help break open this massive work. Philosopher peter kreeft explains in this book that the more includes the absolute good, platonic forms, god, gods, angels, spirits, ghosts, souls, brahman. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for peter kreeft. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. This hunger for continuous learning that exists among todays believers is greatly edifying, a promising sign that the church is indeed alive and well underneath all the soot of scandal and sin. An expanded, catholic edition of the popular book handbook of christian apologetics, handbook of catholic apologetics is full of the wisdom and wit, clarity and insight of philosophers peter kreeft and ronald tacelli. This is an informative and valuable guidebook for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason.
Like all peter kreeft books, this book is very easy to read and understand. Peter kreeft recommends 26 books that every catholic should read. Lewis of catholicism, tackles the tough doctrines of angels, demons, heaven, hell, suffering, prayer, and many more. See all books authored by peter kreeft, including handbook of christian apologetics. Love is stronger than death by philosopher peter kreeft ph. Peter kreeft has 2 books on goodreads with 61934 ratings. Curious chapter titles no doubt, and yet, each offer more than ample insights to.
Books by peter kreeft author of handbook of christian. Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including the best things in life, the journey, how to win the culture war, and handbook of christian apologetics with ronald tacelli. Dec 15, 2007 this is no surprise for all kreeft fans, myself included. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. Peter kreefts recommended philosophy books brandon vogt. Kreeft identified abortion as the gravest moral evil that the culture of death promotes. Peter kreeft is currently considered a single author.
Peter kreeft is a professor of philosophy at boston college and a noted catholic apologist and philosopher. Peter kreeft, who has taught philosophy at the university level for many years, has a clear and direct writing style. In a lecture given at immaculata classical academy, dr. Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including the best things in life, the journey, how to win the culture war and, with ronald tacelli, handbook of. We have many of them in our library and all of them are highly recommended. Peter kreeft teaches philosophy at boston college and is a very prolific author of philosophy and theology texts, including, from st. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries and educational institutions in the eastern united states. I am constantly asked for book recommendations, especially by young catholics. For the first time in 400 years the catholic church has authorized an official universal catechism.
How to read the bible peter kreeft quietwatersmedia. Browse audiobooks written by peter kreeft sorted by best. Have you ever been asked what the catholic church believes. Using this as a basis, professor peter kreeft presents a complete compendium of the catholic faith in the light of the second vatican council and the whole of the churchs tradition. Peter kreeft author of handbook of christian apologetics.
If youre a budding philosopher searching for a solid reading plan, look no further. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they are not good at praying but desire to become much better at it. This is no surprise for all kreeft fans, myself included. Sep 20, 2009 a popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries and educational institutions in the eastern united states. This tourdeforce takes up 110 perennial questions asked. Peter kreeft san francisco, ignatius press, 2016 number of pages.
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