Value in apologetics?

Prob­a­bly every­one (or mostly every­one) who’s been inter­ested in apolo­get­ics for any amount of time has heard the fol­low­ing: peo­ple won’t believe in Jesus because of argu­ments, they are use­less! Well, I’ve cer­tainly heard the com­ment, any­way. What is inter­est­ing about it, is that it’s lim­ited in scope. It ignores the fact that there are many ways to do evan­ge­lism, and there are many “steps” in evan­ge­lism.... Read More

Book Review: Making Sense of Suffering

Pages: 184 Pub­lisher: Ser­vant Books Year: 1986 Author: Peter Kreeft First of all, this is a book every­one should read, espe­cially Chris­tians (and espe­cially if you’re inter­est­ing in “suf­fer­ing”). Along with C.S. Lewis’ The Prob­lem of Pain, this book is one of the most insight­ful books on suf­fer­ing writ­ten in recent mem­ory (and if you haven’t read The Prob­lem of Pain, you should read that too). Peter Kreeft... Read More

Kreeft’s Ecumenical Jihad

Well, it seems a mid-term and essay have taken con­trol of my life, so I won’t be able to put any sub­stan­tial thought towards post­ing (for today). I do think it’s worth men­tion­ing, how­ever, a talk given by Peter Kreeft on some­thing he calls “ecu­meni­cal jihad”–that through (reli­gious) sep­a­ra­tion comes unity (mighty para­dox­i­cal, isn’t it?). It’s about an hour and a half long, but it’s well worth the lis­ten... Read More

Book Review: The Making of an Atheist

Pages: 130 Pub­lisher: Moody Pub­lish­ers Year: 2010 Author: James S. Spiegel I first heard of James Spiegel’s book while brows­ing the EPS blog (Evan­gel­i­cal Philo­soph­i­cal Soci­ety) and com­ing across an inter­view he had done with them. The con­cept of the book is fairly unique amidst the recent spat of new athe­ist books (and the­ist replies). Where those books tend to focus on the intel­lec­tual and ratio­nal rea­sons... Read More

Book Review: Three Approaches to Abortion

Pages: 133 Pub­lisher: Ignatius Press Year: 2002 Author: Peter Kreeft Admit­tedly I was some what unpre­pared for this book after hav­ing read (almost all of) Kreeft’s Socratic dia­logues. As the front cover sug­gests, Kreeft does take a “thought­ful and com­pas­sion­ate” approach to the “issue” of abor­tion. At the same time, how­ever, his approach is very directed and may come off as pre­sump­tu­ous, even con­de­scend­ing,... Read More

Agape: An Unearned Love

An essay recently writ­ten for a course… C.S. Lewis regarded agape love to be the great­est of the four loves. It is the kind of love Christ taught and lived. Author Richard L. Strauss notes that, “it is a love which keeps lov­ing when its object is unre­spon­sive, unkind, unlov­able, or com­pletely unwor­thy… it gives one hun­dred per­cent and expects noth­ing in return!“1 It is an impos­si­ble love if not a reflec­tion of God’s... Read More

Book Review: Socrates Meets Jesus

Pages: 182 Pub­lisher: Inter­var­sity Press Year:  2002 Author: Peter Kreeft Peter Kreeft has writ­ten a sim­ple, yet crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tion of the claims of Jesus as expe­ri­enced through a pagan Greek philoso­pher — Socrates.  It is through Socrates that Kreeft cuts through a lot of the the­o­log­i­cal jar­gon, ask­ing what should be the fore­most and basic ques­tions when approach­ing the ques­tion “Who is Jesus?” The... Read More

Virgin Births and Naked Gospels

Over the past few days a cou­ple things have hap­pened: I’ve become supremely irri­tated at peo­ple con­stantly devalu­ing the vir­gin birth — it changes a lot if it didn’t hap­pen! I’ve also, upon rec­om­men­da­tion, picked up the book The Naked Gospel by Dr. Andrew Far­ley. I believe it’s with this book that I’ll start mak­ing more time for book reviews. As an aside, I’ve also picked up more of Peter Kreeft’s work (Socrates... Read More

The Myth of Moral Relativism

Peter Kreeft warns that rel­a­tivism is the sin­gle most impor­tant issue of our age; for the soci­ety that adopts rel­a­tivism, col­lapse is not too far behind. The ques­tion is then why has the West adopted, by and large, this phi­los­o­phy of rel­a­tivism? The rea­son, says Allan Bloom, is that “the rel­a­tiv­ity of truth is not a the­o­ret­i­cal insight but a moral pos­tu­late, the con­di­tion of a free soci­ety, or... Read More

Book Review: The UnAborted Socrates

Author: Peter Kreeft Pub­lisher: IVP Books Pub­lished: 1983 This is a short review of the short book, The Unaborted Socrates, by Peter Kreeft (pro­fes­sor of phi­los­o­phy, Boston College). As the title sug­gests, this is a book deal­ing with the issue of abor­tion in con­tem­po­rary cul­ture. The book takes the form of Socratic dia­logue between four fig­ures: Socrates, Dr. Rex Her­rod (abor­tion­ist), Pro­fes­sor Attila Tar­ian... Read More

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