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 Heart’s Dearest Longing (Ignatius ‘89, Harper ‘80) Explores what CSI called “irony” 
4. Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven (Ignatius ‘89; Harper ‘82) What’s 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 (!gnatius’91; 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 Heaven’s 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 (Ignatius‘87) short book of short proverbs for wise people in unwise worlds
15. The God Who Loves You (Servant ‘88) How God’s love explains everything in theology & scripture 
16. Fundamentals of the Faith (Ignatius‘88) 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 (Ignatius‘89) Jesus’ sayings in Matthew as answers to modem questions 
20. Three Philosophies of Life (Ignatius‘89) 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) Pascal’s Pensees edited, outlined, explained,. & applied 
28. The Snakebite Letters (Ignatius ‘93) Application of CSL’s Screwtape genre to modern Catholic issues 
29. Handbook of Christian Apologetics (InterVarsity ‘93) wI B. Tacefli; all the basic arguments outined 
30. Your Oucstions. God’s Answers (Ignatius ‘94) Scripture’s answers to modern young people’s 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. Augustine's 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)
== External Links ==
* Peter Kreeft
* Peter Kreeft - Boston College
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