Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft
Peter John Kreeftis a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
absolutism want moral
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
thinking practice people
I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.
believe people absolutism
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
believe games would-be
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
jesus real mets
If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
worship crocodiles
To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
facts god-love gods-will
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
heart trying canyons
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
stuff
Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.
faith inspiration two
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
want saint reason
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one...
teaching may matter
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
simple achievement insane
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
wall men miracle
A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.