Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College, and a Catholic Apologist. He has written various books on apologetics, logic, philosophy, and theology. He draws inspiration from great minds like Socrates, St. Thomas Aquinas, and C.S. Lewis.
Education
- A.B. Calvin College (1959)
- M.A. Fordham University (1961)
- Ph.D. Fordham (1965)
- Yale University - Post Graduate Study
Books
\1. C.S. Lewis: A Critical Essay (Christendom College Press 88; Eerdmans 69) Short, 50 p. introduction
\2. Love is Stronger than Death (Ignatius 87; Harper 79) Death as enemy, stranger, Mend, mother, lover
\3. Heaven, the Hearts Dearest Longing (Ignatius 89, Harper 80) Explores what CSI called irony
\4. Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven (Ignatius 89; Harper 82) Whats in Heaven?
\5. Between Heaven and Hell (InterVarsity 81) CSL, JFK, & Aldous Huxley alter death argue about Jesus
\6. The Unaborted Socrates (InterVarsity 82) Socrates argues vs. prochoice doctor, lawyer, & psychologist
\7. The Best Things in Life (InterVarsity 83) Socrates, on campus, argues the meaning of life wi students
\8. Philosophical QuestIons (wI It Purtill & G. MaDona1d, Prentice-Hall 84) Intro philosophy anthology
\9. Yes or No? Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity (!gnatius91; Servant 84) Dialogs
\10. Prayer: the Great Conversation (Ignatius 92; Servant 85) Dialogs on prayer & sanctity for beginners
\11. Back to Virtue (Ignatius 92; Nelson 86 as For Heavens Sakel Virtues & vices, natural & supernatural
\12. Making Sense out of Suffering (Servant 6) Clues front myth, philosophy, art, literature, & scripture
\13. Socrates Meets Jesus (InterVarsity 87) Conversion of Socrates as a student at Harvard Divinity School
\14. A Turn of the Clock (Ignatius87) short book of short proverbs for wise people in unwise worlds
\15. The God Who Loves You (Servant 88) How Gods love explains everything in theology & scripture
\16. Fundamentals of the Faith (Ignatius88) Introductory essays In traditional Catholic apologetics
\17. Advent: Meditations for the Season (Twin Circle 88)
\18. Two Arguments from the Heart for Immortality (Eerdmans 89; Stob Lectures) From CSL & Ci. Marcel
\19. Letters to Jesus: Answered (Ignatius89) Jesus sayings in Matthew as answers to modem questions
\20. Three Philosophies of Life (Ignatius89) Ecclesiastes (vanity), (suffering), Song of Songs (love)
\21. Does God Exist? (Nelson, 90) introduction & conclusion to debate by J.P. Moreland & KM Nielson
\22. Making Choices (Servant 90) Seeing clear and detailed goods and evils in a world of moral confusion
\23. You Can Understand the Old Testament (Servant 90) Book-by-book introduction for beginners
\24. Reading and Praying the New Testament (Servant 91) Ditto; expanded treatment.of & Revelation
\25. Summa of the Sumni (Ignatius 91) Best intro, to Aquinas philosophy: his jgg edited & footnoted
\26. A Shorter Summa (Ignatius 93) 350 page book (above, #25) cut to 100 pages, for beginning students
\27. Christianity for Modern Pagans (Ignatius 93) Pascals Pensees edited, outlined, explained,. & applied
\28. The Snakebite Letters (Ignatius 93) Application of CSLs Screwtape genre to modern Catholic issues
\29. Handbook of Christian Apologetics (InterVarsity 93) wI B. Tacefli; all the basic arguments outined
\30. Your Oucstions. Gods Answers (Ignatius 94) Scriptures answers to modern young peoples questions
\31. Shadowlands of C.S. Lewis (Ignatius 94) EdIted exerpiS froniCSL on 5 ba1c themes in the movie
\32. Women and the Priesthood (Franciscan U. Press, 94) w/ Alice vónHlldebrand explaining jy thC no
\33. The Angel and the Ant (Servant, 94) Collection of varied short topical essays in Christian living
\34. C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium (Ignathis 94) Is The Abolition of Man a prophecy of our future?
\35. Angels and Demons (Ignatius 95) 101 common c4uestions answerd by scripture, tradition & Aquinas
\36. Ecumenical Jihad (Ignatius 95) Call for radically new interfaith cooperation. the culture of death
\37. The Journey (InterVarsity 96) Socrates teaches 10 basic philosophy & theology lessons, in dialog
\38. A Refutation of Moral Relativism (Ignatius 9.9) Eleven Interviews with a moral absolutist
\39. Prayer for Beginners (Ignatius 00) Elementary, practical advice .
\40. Catholic Christianity (Ignatius 01) the new Catechism of the Catholic Church for busy people; 30 10-page }(nights of Columbus pamphlets collected into one book, covering all of Catholicism
\41. Socratic Logic (St. Augustines Press, 01) practical Aristotelian logic text for do-it yourselfers
\42. How To Win The Culture War (Inter Varsity, 01) guide points for spiritual warfare today
\43. Three Approaches to Abortion (Ignatius '02)
\44. Philosophy 101 by Socrates (introduction to philosophy via the Apology)
\45. Socrates Meets Machiavelli (cross-examination of The Prince)
\46. Socrates Meets Marx (cross-examination of The Communist Manifesto)
\47. Socrates Meets Sartre (cross-examination of Existentialism and Human Emotions)