Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft
Born	Peter Kreeft 1937
Occupation	Philosopher, Professor, Christian Apologist, Author
Genre	Christian apologetics, Philosophy
Notable works	Socrates Meets Jesus Between Heaven and Hell

Peter John Kreeft, Ph.D., (born 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of numerous books as well as a popular writer on philosophy, Christian theology, and specifically Roman Catholic apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".

Career

Kreeft completed his A.B. in philosophy at Calvin College (1959), and later completed M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) degrees in philosophy at Fordham University. He briefly did post graduate studies at Yale University. He joined the Philosophy faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Boston College in 1965. In 1994 he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.

Originally a (Dutch Reformed) Calvinist, Kreeft converted to the Catholic Church while studying philosophy at Yale. The "central and deciding" factor for his conversion was "the Church's claim to be the one Church historically founded by Christ."

Bibliography

• Socratic Logic – A textbook on classical logic.
• Love Is Stronger Than Death (1979)— On the meaning of death and life
• Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley (1982)
• The Unaborted Socrates — Socratic dialogue on abortion (1983)
• The Best Things in Life: A 20th century Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth, and the Good Life — Twelve Socratic dialogues on modern life (1984)
• Yes or No? Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity (1984)
• Making Sense Out of Suffering (1986)— On the meaning of suffering
• Fundamentals of the Faith, Essays in Christian Apologetics (1988)
• Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing (1989)
• Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Heaven... But Never Dreamed of Asking (1990)
• Summa of the Summa (1990)— The essential philosophical passages of St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica edited and explained for beginners
• Three Philosophies of Life (1990)- Ecclesiastes- life as vanity, Job- life as suffering, Song of Songs- life as love
• Back to Virtue (1992)— Traditional moral wisdom for modern moral confusion
• Shorter Summa (1993)— Shorter version of Kreeft's Summa of the Summa
• Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees (1993)— Explains Blaise Pascal's surprisingly modern insights on contemporary life and powerful arguments for Christianity
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics (with Ronald K. Tacelli) (1994)
• C. S. Lewis for the Third Millennium (1994)— Six essays on Lewis' Abolition of Man
• Shadow-Lands of C.S. Lewis : The Man Behind the Movie (1994)
• Angels (and Demons): What Do We Really Know About Them? (1995)
• The Journey A Spiritual Roadmap For Modern Pilgrims(1996)
• The Snakebite Letters Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught in Tempter's Training School (1998)
• Refutation of Moral Relativism — Dialogues between a relativist and absolutist (1999)
• Prayer for Beginners (2000)
• Catholic Christianity (2001)
• Socrates Meets Jesus (1987/2002)— Socratic dialogue between Socrates and students of Harvard University's Divinity School
• How to Win the Culture War (2002)
• Philosophy 101 by Socrates (2002)— An introduction to philosophy via Plato's Apology
• Socrates Meets Sartre : Father Of Philosophy Meets The Founder of Existentialism (2005)— Socratic dialogue between Socrates and Jean Paul Sartre
• The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (2005)
• The Philosophy of Jesus (2007)— On the wisdom of Jesus
• Because God Is Real : Sixteen Questions, One Answer (2008)
• Socrates Meets Machiavelli — Socratic dialogue between Socrates and Machiavelli
• Socrates Meets Marx — Socratic dialogue between Socrates and Karl Marx
• Three Approaches to Abortion — On abortion
• The Sea Within
• "What Would Socrates Do?: The History of Moral Thought and Ethics" — University-level course in a Barnes & Noble Audio Book
• Socrates Meets Kant

See also

• American philosophy
• Christian apologetics
• Christian philosophy
• List of American Catholics
• List of American philosophers

External links

• Peter Kreeft (Official Website)
• Writings of Peter Kreeft at Catholic Educator's Resource