Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft
Peter John Kreeftis a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
christian art media
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
if-there-is-a-god maps virtue
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
catholic spirit holy
Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
voice soul voice-of-god
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.
cat evil needs
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
dog angel ostriches
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".
christmas
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
reason incarnation crucifixion
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
sleep apes oxymoron
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
wall men miracle
A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.
absolutism want moral
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
facts god-love gods-will
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
teaching may matter
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
mistake confused judging
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.