Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics
Overview
Peter Kreeft considers the fundamentals of Christianity and Catholicism, explaining, defending, and demonstrating their relevance to our life and the world’s yearnings. Here is a book to help you understand your faith more fully and have a ready defense of your hope for others.
Like every religion, Catholicism has three aspects, corresponding to the three innate needs of the soul. Kreeft uses these three needs as the basic outline for his Christian apologetics. First, every religion has some beliefs, whether expressed in creeds or not, something for the intellect to know. Second, every religion has some duty or deed, some practice of program, some moral or ethical code, something for the will to choose. Finally, every religion has some liturgy, worship, or “church,” something for the body, the concrete imagination, and the aesthetic sense to interact with. Creed, Code and Cult, or Words, Works and Worship, is Kreeft’s useful way of outlining any religious faith, including the Catholic faith.
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- Examines three aspects of Catholicism that correspond to three innate needs of the soul
- Helps readers understand faith more fully
- Offers valuable insight for Catholics and Protestants alike
- Fundamentals of Christian Apologetics
- Fundamentals of Christian Theology
- Christian Virtues
- Fundamentals of Christian Spirituality
- The Church
- The Churches: Protestant and Catholic
Top Highlights
“The traditional meaning in Catholic theology is the knowledge of what is right and wrong: intellect applied to morality” (Page 36)
“the purpose of apologetics is not just to win the head but to win the heart through the head” (Page 19)
“My seventh and last point is to be optimistic, not pessimistic; offensive, not defensive.” (Page 22)
“A third suggestion is that much of the work of the apologist in modern culture must be preevangelistic. The ground needs to be cleared and tilled before the seeds of the gospel can take root. The typically modern mind has two enormous rocks in it that prevent the growth of good seed: it does not believe in objective truth and it does not believe in objective values.” (Page 19)
“The simple, intuitive point of the argument from conscience is that everyone in the world knows, deep down, that he is absolutely obligated to be and do good, and this absolute obligation could come only from God. Thus everyone knows God, however obscurely, by this moral intuition, which we usually call conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the soul.” (Page 36)
- Title: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics
- Author: Peter Kreeft
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Print Publication Date: 1988
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 300
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Apologetics
- ISBNs: 9780898702026, 089870202X
- Resource ID: LLS:FNDMNTLSFTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:44:08Z
