Hope
PETER KREEFT We creatures of time are constantly moving into the future, and our eyes are usually facing forward. Hope is like headlights. It is not easy to drive without headlights in the dark. A revitalization of the forgotten theological virtue of hope would go far toward healing the tensions in the Church between liberals […]
Hauled Aboard the Ark
PETER KREEFT I was born into a loving, believing community, a Protestant “mother church” (the Reformed Church) which, though it had not for me the fullness of the faith, had strong and genuine piety. I believed, mainly because of the good example of my parents and my church. The faith of my parents, Sunday School […]
Fundamentalists
PETER KREEFT No Christian group is growing faster than the fundamentalists. And many of their converts are coming from the Catholic Church — mainly, badly educated Catholics. To halt this “soul drain,” to answer the fundamentalist challenge and, most of all, to understand our faith better, Peter Kreeft looks at five major points of conflict: […]
Faith and Reason
PETER KREEFT Is it worth while discussing religion. Does talking about religion get us anywhere. Written as a series of dialogues between a Christian and sincere non-Christian, “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 […]
Faith
PETER KREEFT Faith, hope, and charity are, quite simply, the three greatest things in the world; the three legs of a single tripod that supports the whole Christian life. They are the glue that attaches us to God. They are the three-doored entrance to heaven. It is not that God refuses entrance at heaven’s gate […]
Darkness at Noon: The Eclipse of the Permanent Things
PETER KREEFT We all know what Christianity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of modernity. In this essay I shall try to turn the truth tables and see what modernity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of Christianity. My point of view is what C. S. Lewis called “mere Christianity.” “Mere Christianity” means […]
Comparing Christianity & The New Paganism
PETER KREEFT The most serious challenge for Christianity today isn’t one of the other great religions of the world, such as Islam or Buddhism. Nor is it simple atheism, which has no depth, no mass appeal, no staying power. Rather, it’s a religion most of us think is dead. That religion is paganism — and […]
Comparative Religions: The Uniqueness of Christianity
PETER KREEFT Any Christian who does apologetics must think about comparative religions because the most popular of all objections against the claims of Christianity today comes from this field. How insufferably narrow-minded to claim that Christianity is the one true religion! God just has to be more open-minded than that. This is the single most […]
Comparing Christianity & Judaism
PETER KREEFT Kreeft outlines the main theological and practical differences, as well as the important common elements, between Christianity and Judaism. If Jesus returned to earth today, which church would He go to? A Catholic church, of course, replies the Catholic. No, a Protestant church, argues the Protestant. I think both are wrong. I think […]
The Reasons to Believe
PETER KREEFT In this article, Peter Kreeft outlines the arguments for the existence of God from cause and effect, from conscience, from history, and the argument known as “Pascal’s Wager.” Why do you believe all the things you believe as a Catholic? Because of the reliability of the Church which teaches them, of course. You […]