Book Review: Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft
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 book is written in the same fashion as his other Socrates meets… books. Names are often satire, some times biting and always relevant. The context is always modern day (at least at the time of writing) and the issues as relevant now as they were back then. Kreeft’s use of satire does not come off as inappropriate or spiteful, but humorous (i.e., Professor Fesser, Bertha Broadmind) and light-hearted.
Kreeft’s story picks up immediately after Socrates drinks hemlock juice, dying. He finds himself thrown 2,000 years in … (Read more)
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