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Ach, ten Sokrates... - Peter Kreeft
O knize Ach, ten Sokrates... Netradičně o umělých potratech. Co by se stalo, kdyby se Sokrates ocitl v moderních Aténách? Peter Kreeft nabízí dialog o umělých potratech se třemi úctyhodnými oponenty – lékařem, filosofem a psychologem. Sokratovská logika kombinovaná s humorem se vrhá přímo do srdce racionálního pohledu na potraty a je výzvou pro obvyklou rétoriku a vášně současné debaty. Sokrates: Je dovoleno tázat se na všechno, co jste řekl? Tarian: Ano, ovšem.
An Ocean Full of Angels
by Peter Kreeft Format Hardcover Regular price $27.96 USD Regular price $34.95 USD Sale price $27.96 USD Unit price / per SAVE 20% Sold Out FREE USA SHIPPINGMADE IN ITALY A haunted coastline. A Muslim philosopher. A prophecy about “hastening the sun.” In his only novel, Peter Kreeft trades syllogisms for sea storms and gives us ‘Isa ben Adam—philosopher, fighter, lover, possible messiah, definite troublemaker.
Clashing Symbols by Peter Kreeft
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft When I started teaching logic, in 1962, most of the textbooks taught traditional Aristotelian logic rather than the (then still fairly new) "symbolic logic," also called "mathematical logic" or "propositional calculus." Forty years later, there are only two full-length texts of traditional Aristotelian logic in print.
Philosophy - What Every Catholic Should Know
Philosophy - What Every Catholic Should Know “The need for this book is perennial, but it is especially acute today, when both faith and reason are on life support in our culture, which is increasingly hostile to both, or at least to the classical or traditional forms of both….In this culture it is essential that Catholics and other Christians know the intellectual weapons and strategies of the enemies of religious faith and the defensive and offensive intellectual weapons that defeat them.
Episode 62 | Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
What is ideology? What are the consequences of an era when seemingly every human issue is viewed through an ideological lens? And importantly, how do we move beyond ideology? In October of 2021, the Trinity Forum and Comment magazine partnered for an evening conversation to explore precisely these questions. Cherie Harder and Anne Snyder moderated a conversation with philosopher Peter Kreeft and Rev.
Lessons One in Prayer, by Dr. Peter Kreeft
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Why the LA Dodgers Chose Anti-Catholicism By Dr. Peter Kreeft, Integrated Catholic, June 13, 2023 In this timeless post from the archives, Dr. Peter Kreeft offers sure advice on developing your prayer life. This essay appears here with the kind permission of the author. Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer.
The Three Most Profound Ideas I Have Ever Heard, by Dr. Peter Kreeft
WATCH! Church Militant: The Ghost of Pachamama Haunts the Vatican By Dr. Peter Kreeft, Integrated Catholic, Ideas are more precious than diamonds. The three most precious ideas I have ever discovered all concern the love of God. None of them is original. But every one is revolutionary. None of them came from me. But all of them came to me with sudden force and fire: the “aha!” experience, the “eureka!” experience. They were all realizations, not just beliefs. 1.
Comparing Christianity & Islam | Peter Kreeft
By Peter Kreeft 17 March 2023 Islam neither Merely Simplifies Christianity nor Merely Adds To It, but Reinterprets It—Somewhat As Christianity Does To Judaism ------- Two Unsettling Facts Dominate The Relations Between Christianity And Islam: 1. Dialogue is almost non-existent. Islam resists ecumenical dialogue more than any other religion. To "proselytize" in any way in a Moslem country is to go to prison. 2.
Don’t Look Up? Four Views on Heaven: An Extended Review
Four Views on Heaven Published by Zondervan Academic in 218pp / $$20.99 / 978-0310093886 “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,” opens John S. Feinberg in Four Views on Heaven (23).
Podcast Throwback: What hath Greek Philosophy to do with Christianity?
It was the church father Tertullian who famously quipped, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Many Christians today have joined Tertullian in pondering this question, and have concluded that the answer must be “nothing.” Greek Philosophy, it is assumed, offers nothing whatever to Christianity, and the Christian faith is obscured and tarnished by direct incorporation of Greek philosophical ideas. But is this true?
Podcast Throwback: What hath Greek Philosophy to do with Christianity?
It was the church father Tertullian who famously quipped, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Many Christians today have joined Tertullian in pondering this question, and have concluded that the answer must be “nothing.” Greek Philosophy, it is assumed, offers nothing whatever to Christianity, and the Christian faith is obscured and tarnished by the incorporation of Greek philosophical ideas. But is this true?
Mary, Seat of Wisdom and Philosopher Extraordinaire
THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER WHO EVER LIVED By Peter Kreeft Ignatius Press, 2021 285 pages, $18.95 To order: ignatius.com or (800) 651-1831 (web purchases discounted) Peter Kreeft, a full professor in philosophy at Boston College, loves philosophy in its radical root as “the love of wisdom.” So it’s no wonder that his book about the “greatest philosopher who ever lived” is a rich tome about … the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Handbook Of Catholic Apologetics
Description Unbelievers, doubters and skeptics continue to attack the truths of Christianity. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is the only book that categorizes and summarizes all the major arguments in support of the main Christian beliefs, including key, distinctively Catholic doctrines. Also included is a Protestant-friendly treatment of Catholic-Protestant issues. The Catholic answers to Protestant questions show how Catholicism is the fullness of the Christian faith.
Q: You said that Eucharistic adoration is the first thing you would do to renew a parish. Why is the Eucharist so central? Because life is a Eucharist. Too bad it has such a technical- and “churchy”-sounding name. It is love; it is life; it is the whole meaning of our lives. It is not just one very good thing in life, or in the world; life and the world are in it.
Podcast Throwback: Can Thomas Aquinas save us from (post)modernism?
Why does contemporary theology display a historical amnesia towards medieval philosophy? Medieval philosophy is sometimes neglected altogether and where medieval philosophy is discussed today, it is often misunderstood or caricatured in negative ways. One of the more common mischaracterizations is that Thomas Aquinas is a pure rationalist who subverts the Scriptures at the expense of his philosophical musings. Contrary to this narrative, Aquinas was a man who was steeped in the Scriptures.
Reflections on the Mass Readings (Cycle C)" by Peter Kreeft
Vatican II called the Bible “the support and energy of the Church,” “the pure and everlasting source of spiritual life,” and “the food of the soul.” Yet, for many Catholics, their engagement with Scripture is often limited to what they hear at Mass. In Food for the Soul, the first book in a riveting three-part series, celebrated philosopher Peter Kreeft invites the faithful—clergy and laity alike—to a heart-to-heart relationship with Christ the Word through the Word of the Scriptures.
Pondering the Psalms: A Deep Dive Into Beloved Scriptures
Good reading for St. Jerome’s feast day WISDOM FROM THE PSALMS By Peter Kreeft Foreword by Scott Hahn Ignatius Press, 2020 243 pages, $17.95 To order: ignatius.com Wisdom From the Psalms is not a book about the Psalms in general, nor an exhaustive commentary on all 150.
Nietzsche, Freud, and the Politics of Sex: Carl R. Trueman and Matthew Barrett
There’s been a drastic shift in the understanding of the self over the last 200 years. We now tend to think of ourselves as unencumbered, expressive individuals who are most authentic when we are able to act outwardly on those things that really define us, our inward feelings and our inward desires. Additionally, our imaginations are now gripped by the idea that our sexual desires are fundamentally determinative of who we are.
Can Thomas Aquinas save us from (post)modernism? Peter Kreeft and Matthew Barrett
Why does contemporary theology display a historical amnesia towards medieval philosophy? Medieval philosophy is sometimes neglected altogether and where medieval philosophy is discussed today, it is often misunderstood or caricatured in negative ways. One of the more common mischaracterizations is that Thomas Aquinas is a pure rationalist who subverts the Scriptures at the expense of his philosophical musings. Contrary to this narrative, Aquinas was a man who was steeped in the Scriptures.
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Living Well on Earth & Entering Heaven: The Nineteen Types of Judgment
Making judgments is a privilege of persons only. A privilege that is necessary, both to live well on earth and to enter Heaven. There are at least nineteen different kinds of judgment that we should distinguish. I’m sorry I could not find a twentieth, to match the number of digits on our fingers and toes. But nineteen does match the digits of Frodo Baggins, one of my heroes.
Thomas Aquinas: Understand the Universal Teacher's Greatest Ideas
This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history's most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem inaccessible.
The Heart of the Human Person
BOOK PICK: ‘Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All’ Clare Walker Books January 9, 2021 WISDOM OF THE HEART The Good, the True and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All By Peter Kreeft TAN Books, 2020 282 pages, $27.95 To order: tanbooks.com As a regular person who operates within the realm of normal English, I find most philosophers and theologians impossible to read.
Is the God of the Bible the God of the Philosophers?
It is not uncommon to hear some Christians today pit the God of the Bible against the “god of the philosophers.” It is assumed that the philosophers reasoned their way to a cold, inert, static, indifferent, and impersonal Being who resembles little the loving, covenant-making God of the Bible. They are distinct, and never the two shall meet. What God has torn asunder, let no man bring together. But is this dichotomy a fair one?
New Podcast: What hath Greek Philosophy to do with Christianity?
It was the church father Tertullian who famously quipped, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Many Christians today have joined Tertullian in pondering this question, and have concluded that the answer must be “nothing.” Greek Philosophy, it is assumed, offers nothing whatever to Christianity, and the Christian faith is obscured and tarnished by direct incorporation of Greek philosophical ideas. But is this true?
A Friend and Mentor: Remembering Tom Howard - Ave Maria Radio
Friends are not usually mentors. Relationships with friends are horizontal relationships between equals; relationships with mentors are vertical relationships with role models. I have had many friends and many mentors but only three people in my life have been both friends and mentors to me: Sheldon Vanauken, author of A Severe Mercy, the only book I know that elicits tears from all who have ever read it, Michael O’Brien, the greatest living Catholic novelist, and Tom Howard.
A Friend and Mentor: Remembering Tom Howard
Peter Kreeft and Thomas Howard, on the cover of "The Philosopher's Bench," a series produced by EWTN. (EWTN Global Catholic Network) Friends are not usually mentors. Relationships with friends are horizontal relationships between equals; relationships with mentors are vertical relationships with role models.
Think angels are nice but a bit boring? You couldn't be more wrong
At the beginning of The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis notes that the Devil is equally pleased by two errors about him: an unhealthy obsession with him and an ignoring or denying of his existence. The same is true of angels. Idolising or ignoring them are equally unrealistic. But of the two errors the latter is by far the most common today. Angels, like God, are easy to ignore because they are invisible. They are also easy to ignore because we believe many myths about them.
What Is "the Church"?
Appears in Summer 2020 I. Matter and Spirit The first and most obvious answer to the question of my title is that the church is that funny-looking building on the corner. That’s not a wholly wrong answer. A building, like a church, has an identity. It gets its identity from its walls. Walls separate. Walls distinguish. Walls discriminate. They are like the lines around a geometrical figure or the borders around a country or the definition of a term. Walls are physical lines, borders, or definitions.
Summer 2020 | Volume 38, Issue 3
Many are characterizing 2020 as a kairos year, the forces of a global pandemic and a long-simmering disease of the soul forging an opening for change. Already COVID-19 and our reckoning with unchallenged hierarchies of human value have revealed structural, social, and moral realities previously hidden or denied, to say nothing of what they continue to reveal about the state of our own hearts. Many are asking: What gives life meaning? What does it require to live well together?
Time - Integrated Catholic Life™
Recently I was late getting a manuscript to an editor. My excuse? By far the most popular one in America: I had “no time.” Let’s examine that excuse. Why do we all seem to have no time for anything, much less for prayer? I am constantly feeling guilty about this, and I suspect most of you are too. I think the single biggest obstacle to our relationship with God (after sin, of course) is “no time.” If I gave my children as much time as I give God, I could be prosecuted for child neglect and abuse.
Why Don’t Catholics Believe in Reincarnation?
This article is from Ask Peter Kreeft. The Church has always denied it, especially when it was popular in the surrounding non Christian culture, e.g., in ancient Greece. The Bible contradicts it: “It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Reincarnation insults the body. It’s Cartesian, or Platonic, or Gnostic. It locates our whole humanity in the soul or spirit and treats the body merely as our temporary motel room at best and as a tomb or prison at worst.
Why is the Eucharist So Central?
Q: You said that Eucharistic adoration is the first thing you would do to renew a parish. Why is the Eucharist so central? Because life is a Eucharist. Too bad it has such a technical- and “churchy”-sounding name. It is love; it is life; it is the whole meaning of our lives. It is not just one very good thing in life, or in the world; life and the world are in it.
Perseverance is the Key to Overcome Distractions in Prayer
During the season of Lent, we are called to make a more focused effort on growing in the discipline of prayer. What we discover rather quickly when we add in more frequent prayer, is that it takes work and perseverance. This is one of the reasons many people give up on growing in prayer. We forget in our impatience, that our progress is first-and-foremost up to God, not us.
Why is Mary So Important for Catholics?
From a Reader As a Protestant, I just can’t fathom why there’s such a gulf between us about Mary. You Catholics seem to idolize her. Almost all Protestants feel you do. Could you explain it? I don’t mean your dogmas about Mary — the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption — I know the arguments you have for them. But I sense there’s something bigger, deeper, and more hidden in the soul about this whole Catholic schtick about Mary, whether it’s right or wrong.
Peter Kreeft’s Philosophy in Focus
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Dr. Peter Kreeft: How To Begin Praying & Meditating
What is your favorite method of prayer? To “pray without ceasing,” as St. Paul tells us (1 Thess. 5:17). To blend prayer with everything else. To make work a prayer. To overcome the separation between religion and life, the unfortunate idea we all have that “religion” is something different from life, something “pious” or “for religious people” or only for special times and places; something that ordinary sinners and cynics and selfish people dismiss.
Peter Kreeft on Angels
Editor’s note: with the upcoming feasts of the Archangels and Guardian Angels, we would like to present Dr. Peter’s Kreeft’s thoughts on angels in the modern era. This article is adapted from the book Ask Peter Kreeft, available from Sophia Institute Press. Why don’t we hear anything about angels anymore? Because we don’t want to. They don’t pop into and out of existence depending on whether we believe in them, but, on the other hand, they don’t do much for us until they are asked and believed in.
Think angels are nice but a bit boring? You couldn’t be more wrong
At the beginning of The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis notes that the Devil is equally pleased by two errors about him: an unhealthy obsession with him and an ignoring or denying of his existence. The same is true of angels. Idolising or ignoring them are equally unrealistic. But of the two errors the latter is by far the most common today. Angels, like God, are easy to ignore because they are invisible. They are also easy to ignore because we believe many myths about them.
An Interview with Peter Kreeft
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Peter Kreeft Points to the Good, True and Beautiful
BOOK PICK: Doors in the Walls of the World: Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story Timothy D. Lusch Doors in the Walls of the World Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story By Peter Kreeft Ignatius, 2018 127 pages, $15.95 To order: ignatius.com or (800) 651-1531 In C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, young Lucy opens the door to a wardrobe. Perhaps sensing something more than old clothes, she ventures further, only to realize it is altogether bigger than she thought.
The Bible Leads Me to the Church
All Christians trust the Bible, including (especially) the New Testament. But the Bible leads me to the Church. This happens in two ways. First, the Bible tells me that Christ established a Church and gave her His authority to teach in His name. So, the Bible sends me forward to the Church, from Christ to His Church as His invention. The Bible also sends me backward to the Church, for the Church is its cause. It is a historical fact that it was the Church (the apostles) that wrote the New Testament.
The Politics of Architecture | Peter Kreeft
I was driving through Cambridge, Massachusetts with three friends recently when it struck me how well we divided into John Courtney Murray’s four American political types: radical, liberal, traditionalist, and conservative. But what I learned from our conversation convinced me that however valid and useful Murray’s typology may be, it also leaves out something important and surprising. Dick is a radical of the left. As a teenager in the sixties he had all the right (which is to say, left) opinions.
Why Did I Choose Catholicism Instead of Another Religion?
There are many religions in the world. Why did I choose to be a Catholic? Here are the steps in my reasoning. Religion or No Religion? My first choice was between religion and no religion. Religion means a “yoke” or a “binding-back relationship.” Religion is a relationship with God. (God here is taken in the broadest sense as at least some higher power, something greater than us.) So, an atheist is one who believes that there is no God at all, and therefore there ought to be no religion at all.
The best spiritual books of 2018
If you haven't already read these books, there's still time in the New Year It is always a fascinating exercise to look back over the year and try to select the most memorable books reviewed. Why this book and not that? By what criterion does one make one’s choices? I have decided finally on the simple measurement of a gut instinct: how much of the book in question remains in my memory, deserving to be re-read. Praying with St Paul (Magnificat).
Black and Pro-Life in America
"Through it all, we must remember that Walter is also an ordained Baptist minister with the call to preach the fullness of the gospel of life. This book is a journal of Walter's journey. This is a testimony to read and be inspired by." —Alveda King, Pro-Life Activist; Niece of Martin Luther King Jr., from the Foreword "Few people are willing to suffer targeting and deprivation of freedom for the sake of justice. Walter Hoye is one such hero.
The Four Marks of the Church: Reasons to Believe
The Nicene Creed identifies the Church of Christ by four marks: she is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Only one Church fits that description. The description in the Creed is a description of our true home. It is a lighthouse, a roadmap, a clear marker for searchers and travelers. One.
Two Surprising Reasons Why I'm Catholic
Because Jesus is present in every consecrated Host This article is a preview of Dr. Kreeft’s Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic. Jesus is available to me in His body and in His soul in every Mass, in my body and in my soul. And I need Him. There is a little red light burning perpetually in the sanctuary of every Catholic church in the world except from Good Friday until the Easter Vigil, between the time Jesus died on the Cross and the time He rose from the dead on Easter morning.
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