What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and...
Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wis...
Peter KreeftKreeft issues a clear call to all Christians to get back to their active pursuit of real virtue in their daily lives. This in-depth analysis of the meaning of the virtues and their connection with the Beatitudes also summarizes a scri...
The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic De...
Peter KreeftIs abortion a woman's right? When does human life begin? Should we legislate morality? What would happen if the Socrates of old suddenly appeared in modern Athens? Peter Kreeft imagines the dialog that might ensue with three worthy op...
Kreeft uses Scripture to provide God's answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life, their own identity, overcoming failure and temptation, the mystery of God's love, and much mo...
Jacob's Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth
Peter KreeftThere are ten important questions everyone should ask; and the answers to these questions, which lead to ultimate truth, are a matter of reason, not of faith.Well-known Catholic philosopher and writer Peter Kreeft tackles each of thes...
A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Int...
Peter KreeftNo issue is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism. History knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Yet most attacks on relativism have been either pragmatic (looking at its social ...
Ask Peter Kreeft: The 100 Most Intere...
Peter KreeftWhat's the hardest question you've ever been asked?I've given thousands of lectures around the country to engaged, thoughtful, curious university and church audiences and have always made it a practice to allow for as many questions a...
Because God Is Real: Sixteen Question...
Peter KreeftAtheistic and agnostic writers are aggressively attacking traditional religious beliefs. Philosopher and prolific writer Peter Kreeft is up to the challenge in this work of popular apologetics aimed at both teens and adults. The maste...
Between Allah and Jesus: What Christi...
Peter KreeftWhat would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would they learn?That is the intriguing question Peter Kreeft seeks to answer in these imaginative conv...
Between One Faith and Another: Engagi...
Peter KreeftHow do we make sense of the world's different religions?In today's globalized society, religion is deeply intertwined with every issue we see on the news. But talking about multiple religions can be contentious. Are different faiths c...
Catholics and Protestants: What Can W...
Peter KreeftThe widely read author and philosopher Peter Kreeft presents a unique book about the important beliefs that Catholics and Protestants share in common. Inspired by Christ's prayer for unity in the Gospel of John and Saint John Paul II'...
Confessions of a Cafeteria Catholic
Peter KreeftOne day, philosopher Peter Kreeft reads an open letter published by a friend, Nat Whilk. He's Catholic, but he sees the Church as unsteady, outdated, obsessive. As a challenge to the "True Believers", Nat pens a twenty-p...
Doors in the Walls of the World: Sign...
Peter Kreeft"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." — HamletAfter William Shakespeare's Horatio sees the ghost of Hamlet's father, and scarcely believes his own eyes, Hamlet tells h...
My title explains itself.But it's misleading.There are more than 40 reasons.In fact, there are at least ten to the 82nd power, which, I am told, is the number of atoms in the universe. And that's just in ordinary matter, which makes u...
Ha!: A Christian Philosophy of Humor
Peter Kreeft"This book almost didn't exist. I was about to write a serious, heavy book entitled How To Save Western Civilization, as a sequel to my book How To Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss. But writing...
How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becomi...
Peter Kreeft"Life, in the end, has only one tragedy: not to have been a saint."– Leon BloyThe ever-popular and prolific Peter Kreeft says that the most important question he has written about is how one becomes holy; or to put it anot...
How to Destroy Western Civilization a...
Peter KreeftBest-selling author Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the issues that increasingly divide our Western civilization and culture. He states that “these essays are not new proposals or solutions to to...
I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine's ...
Peter KreeftPopular author and philosopher Peter Kreeft delves into one of the most beloved Christian classics of all time--Augustine's Confessions. He collects key passages and offers incisive commentary, making Confessions accessible to any rea...
In one of his most penetrating books, Kreeft ponders the meaning of a terminal illness we all have: death. The three vital questions of Life, Death, and God are approached through a variety of human experiences. Kreeft's book is a new...
Philosophy (What Every Catholic Shoul...
Peter KreeftSeries Summary The What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a panoramic approach to the to...
Prayer: The Great Conversation: Strai...
Peter KreeftIn his typically lucid and original style, the popular spiritual writer Peter Kreeft explores many aspects and questions about prayer, the center of our spiritual lives. In a series of imaginative dialogues (like prayer itself), Kreef...
Probes: Deep Sea Diving Into Saint Jo...
Peter KreeftThis is no ordinary book. It is a set of probing questions (1,450 in fact) designed to help individuals or groups, especially groups, to dive deeply into Saint John's Gospel. No answers are provided, but the questions are phrased in s...
Socrates Meets Machiavelli: The Fathe...
Peter KreeftThere is no better way to understand our present world than by exploring the Great Books written by the great minds that have made it.There is no better way to study the beginning of modern political philosophy than by studying its fo...
Symbol or Substance?: A Dialogue on t...
Peter KreeftIn this engaging fictional conversation, Peter Kreeft gives credible voices to C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Billy Graham as they discuss one of the most contentious questions in the history of Christianity: Is Jesus symbolically...
The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for ...
Peter KreeftOpen this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth. Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you travel along the road of true knowledge. Socrates, the thoroughly reasonable and wise phil...
The Psalms are the most popular, most universally loved and used book in the Bible, which in turn is the most popular book in the world. They are hymns, songs, poems and prayers, both formal (liturgical and communal) and informal (spo...
Yes or No?: Straight Answers to Tough...
Peter KreeftThe popular Christian apologist Kreeft tackles many of the tough questions of our day concerning Christianity. In a series of imaginative "dialogues", Sal the Seeker and Chris the Christian deal with the profound mysteries o...