Comparing Christianity & Islam
PETER KREEFT Peter Kreeft outlines the main theological and practical differences, as well as the important common elements, between Christianity and Islam. Two unsettling facts dominate the relations between Christianity and Islam: In other words, Islam has the world’s lowest rate of being converted and one of the world’s highest rates of converting. What accounts […]
Gender and the Will of God
The Issue of Priestesses is Ultimately an Issue of God Peter Kreeft C. S. Lewis said that he wrote the books he wished someone else would write, but they didn’t, so he did. I feel the same way, and so I write in answer to the need, often expressed by me and often expressed to me, […]
Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims
PETER KREEFT Please ask yourself whether you would like others to judge Christianity based on the picture of it now being presented in the modern Western media. Then please remember the Golden Rule, and apply this to the picture of Islam presented by the same source. The “Bottom Line” Up-Front Full disclosure: I am a […]
Justice, Wisdom, Courage, and Moderation: The Four Cardinal Virtues
PETER KREEFT These four cardinal virtues are not the only virtues, but they are the cardes, the “hinges”, on which all the other virtues turn. They are the necessary foundation and precondition for all others. If a person is not courageous, for instance, he will not overcome the difficulties inherent in the practice of any […]
A Civilization at Risk: Whatever Became of Virtue?
Peter Kreeft In an age of “anything goes”, virtue is a revolutionary thing. In an age of rebellion, authority is the radical idea. In an age of pell-mell “progress” to annihilation, tradition is the hero on the white horse. A prominent Christian businessman is exposed as a crook and a bigamist. A historic Christian denomination […]
Science and Religion
PETER KREEFT I don’t need your God; I have science to explain everything. Your religion is a crutch for weak minds. You use superstition; I use science. (“Yes and No” is Peter Kreeft’s answer to so many religion texts which leave students thinking of religion as little more than a dull and boring rehash of […]
Perfect Fear Casts Out All “Luv”
PETER KREEFT Have you ever noticed the amazing fact that most modern “religious educators” try to remove the very thing the Bible calls “the beginning of wisdom”? I mean, of course, fear — “the fear of the Lord.” An army of modern psychologists is on the side of the educators rather than on the side […]
Joy
PETER KREEFT Joy is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Pleasure is in the body. Happiness is in the mind and feelings. Joy is deep in the heart, the spirit, the center of the self. The way to pleasure is power and prudence. The way to happiness is moral goodness. The […]
Justification by Faith
PETER KREEFT The Protestant Reformation began when a Catholic monk rediscovered a Catholic doctrine in a Catholic book. The monk, of course, was Luther; the doctrine was justification by faith; and the book was the Bible. One of the tragic ironies of Christian history is that the deepest split in the history of the Church, […]
How Does the Weakness of the Cross Make Us Strong?
PETER KREEFT “When I am weak, then I am strong”; “power made perfect in weakness.” Such verses are often cited as key to spiritual growth, but do we really understand what they are talking about? Can anyone ever understand? Yes. If we couldn’t understand it at all, God would not have told it to us. […]