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"...
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jesus long done
To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".
hate particular
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:
god destiny eternity
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
god spiritual soul
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.
reason incarnation crucifixion
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
god sake
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
god caring understanding
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.
faith heaven good-work
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
faith flower love-is
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
attitude indifference
Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
faith flower love-is
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
faith rain destiny
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
sleep apes oxymoron
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
faith rough-times eternity
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.