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Peter Kreeft
In Letters to an Atheist, Peter Kreeft corresponds with a fictional young atheist and explores the arguments for God as well as dismantles the arguments against. From the problem of…
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The greatest teacher of philosophy in all of history was Socrates, according to philosopher Peter Kreeft. In 2,400 years, no one has topped him or his Socratic method, teaching not…
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"All the world's a stage"--but are the men and women merely players, or actors in a heavenly drama?
In God on Stage, renowned author and professor Peter Kreeft explores fifteen…
Since the beginnings of the Church, much has been written about the Trinity in the Creator. In this accessible book for ordinary Christians, Peter Kreeft reflects on a different topic…
Socrates once said that a good person does not worry much about the little things, like whether he lives or dies, but only about the one big thing: whether he…
Answers to a hundred questions–on philosophy, religion, morality, culture, and other topics–that people have asked author Peter Kreeft –
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Peter Kreeft brings his unique insights to this most important area of our spiritual lives. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for…
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Subtitle on cover: 350 + ways your mind can help you become a saint.
This is the fourth and final part of Kreeft’s four-volume history of philosophy … on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy.
Kreeft focuses on the big ideas that have influenced…
This is no ordinary book. It is a set of probing questions (1,450 in fact) designed to help individuals or groups, especially groups, to dive deeply into Saint John’s Gospel…
In his classic style of imagining fictional conversations between famous persons of history about important topics, Kreeft picks three of the most loved and respected representatives of the three main…
"Peter Kreeft presents 252 contemporary questions that modern man asks about the meaning of life, faith, love, suffering, friendship, death, eternity, God, Jesus, and more. The answer to each question…
Atheistic and agnostic writers are aggressively attacking traditional religious beliefs. Philosopher and prolific writer Peter Kreeft is up to the challenge in this work of popular apologetics aimed at both…
Popular author and philosopher Peter Kreeft delves into one of the most beloved Christian classics of all time–Augustine’s Confessions. He collects key passages and offers incisive commentary, making Confessions accessible…
The Psalms are the most popular, most universally loved and used book in the Bible, which in turn is the most popular book in the world. They are hymns, songs…
The widely read author and philosopher Peter Kreeft presents a unique book that focuses on the important beliefs that Catholics and Protestants share in common. He says this book is…
In Letters to an Atheist, esteemed philosopher and author Peter Kreeft corresponds with a young atheist who is wrestling with the question of God. Together they work through some of…
Why are you a Catholic? is a good question. Here are forty of Dr. Peter Kreeft's answers.
How do we make sense of the world’s different religions? In this creative thought experiment, Peter Kreeft invites us to encounter dialogues on the major faiths with his characters Thomas…
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Life, in the end, has only one tragedy: not to have been a saint. Leon Bloy The ever-popular and prolific Peter Kreeft says that the most important question he has…
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.– Hamlet
After William Shakespeare’s Horatio sees the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and scarcely believes…
Best-selling author Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the issues that increasingly divide our Western civilization and culture. He states that these essays are not…
A new masterwork by one of the foremost Catholic philosophers of our time, Wisdom of the Heart is essential reading for understanding ourselves, our God, and our relationship with him.
Peter Kreeft’s Socrates probes the contemporary values of success, power and pleasure.
In Before I Go, Kreeft presents lessons learned about life, faith, morality, priorities, marriage, and more, as his legacy to his children-and to readers. He shares his practical wisdom, as…
An articulate and engaging Muslim student challenges the Christian students and professors he meets on issues ranging from prayer and worship to evolution and abortion, from war and politics to…
On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy, and Aldous Huxley. Imagining a lively and informative dialogue…
Peter Kreeft’s Socrates enters the debate on abortion, considering the arguments of psychology, medicine and philosophy.
Juxtaposing ecumenism and jihad, two words that many would consider strange and at odds with one another, Peter Kreeft argues that we need to change our current categories and alignments…
This book almost didn’t exist. I was about to write a serious, heavy book entitled How To Save Western Civilization, as a sequel to my book How To Destroy Western…
(1) Science, (2) philosophy, and (3) poetry, myth, and mysticism are three modes of consciousness that are radically different today. We are usually very good at carefully distinguishing them so…
Jesus Shock is the second in a series of short works on seminal concerns of the impact that Jesus Christ made in the world. The first work, The Philosophy of…
The Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much THE central one that the very existence and survival of Western…
Next to the Socratic Method, the best method for organizing a logical debate over a controversial philosophical or theological issue is the method St. Thomas Aquinas uses in the Summa…
This book is designed for three classes of people:
Beginners who want an introduction to philosophy; Those who have already had an introduction to philosophy and who would like to…
Originally published: San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002.
What if we could overhear a conversation in the afterlife between Socrates and Machiavelli, in which Machiavelli has to submit to an Oxford tutorial style examination of his book conducted…
Kreeft states that Socrates and Descartes are perhaps the two most important philosophers who have ever lived; they are the two who made the most difference to all philosophers after…
Kreeft presents a Socratic examination of Hume’s Enquiry concerning Human Understanding in relation to the skepticism of Hume, posing questions that challenge the concepts that Hume proposed. Kreeft states that…
Immanuel Kant is one of the greatest philosophers in history. But, as Peter Kreeft notes in this book, Kant is really two philosophers-a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology)…
Humorous, frank, and insightful, this book challenges the reader to step in and take hold of what is right and to cast away what is wrong. Topics covered included such…
Kreeft takes the reader through the world of existentialist philosophy, posing questions that challenge the concepts that Sartre proposed. Based on an imagination dialogue between Socrates and Sartre that takes…
Probably no single thinker since Jesus has influenced the thoughts and lives of more people living in the Western world today than Sigmund Freud.
Even agnostics like William Barrett, in…
No philosopher since Augustine had more strings to his bow than SK.
So we must (1) restore love to our philosophy, and (2) restore philosophy (wisdom) to our love, not just to understand this book but also to understand wisdom (which cannot…
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…
Looking at Jesus as a complete human being and philosopher, explores the most radical revolution in the history of philosophy–the differences Jesus made to metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, and philosophical ethics…
