Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ, By Peter Kreeft

Socrates Meets Jesus

History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ

Revised Edition

by Peter Kreeft

Socrates Meets Jesus
Paperback
  • Length: 182 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: January 10, 2002
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830823383

What would happen if Socrates--yes, the Socrates of ancient Athens--suddenly showed up on the campus of a major university and enrolled in its divinity school?What would he think of human progress since his day?How would he react to our values? Toour culture?And what would he think of Jesus?Peter Kreeft, Christian philosopher and longtime admirer of the historic Socrates, imagines the result. In this drama Socrates meets such fellow students as Bertha Broadmind, Thomas Keptic and Molly Mooney. Throughout, Kreeft weaves an intriguing web as he brings Socrates closer and closer to a meeting with Jesus. Here is a startling and provocative portrayal of reason in search of truth.In a new introduction to this revised edition, Kreeft also highlights the inspiration for this book and the key questions of truth and faith it addresses.

CONTENTS

Introduction
1. From Hemlock to Have It
2. Progressing Away from Progress
3. Was Jesus a Fundamentalist?
4. Candy Confessions
5. Are Miracles Unscientific?
6. How to Be Comparatively Religious
7. Jesus: One of aKind
8. How Odd of God to Choose the Jews
9. Look Out! It's Alive!
Postscript from the Boston Globe

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Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft (PhD, Fordham University) is professor of philosophy at Boston College, where he has taught since 1965. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries, and educational institutions in the eastern United States. Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including The Best Things in Life, The Journey, and Handbook of Christian Apologetics (with Ronald Tacelli).