Peter Kreeft is a Catholic apologist, professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of over 45 books including Fundamentals of the Faith , Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven , and Back to Virtue . Some consider him the best Catholic philosopher currently residing in the United States. His ideas draw heavily from religious and philosophical tradition, especially Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis. Kreeft has writings on Socratic logic, the sea, Jesus Christ, the Summa Theologica, angels, Blaise Pascal, and Heaven, as well as his work on the Problem of Evil, for which he was interviewed by Lee Strobel in his bestseller, The Case for Faith .
Books
Angels and Demons
What Do We Really Know about Them?
1995
A Shorter Summa
The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
1485
Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic
2018
Jesus-Shock
2008
Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing
1980
Symbol or Substance?
A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham and J. R. R. Tolkien
2019
Socrates Meets Jesus
History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ
1987
C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium
1994
The God Who Loves You
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
1988
How to Win the Culture War
A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis
2002
Faith and Reason
The Philosophy of Religion
2005
Christianity for Modern Pagans
Pascal's Pensees
1993
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven
1982
You Can Understand The Bible
2005
A Refutation of Moral Relativism
Interviews with an Absolutist
1999
On the Shoulders of Hobbits
The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis
2012
Catholic Christianity
A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church
2001
Making Sense Out of Suffering
1986
Ha!
A Christian Philosophy of Humor
2022
How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss
2021
A Pocket Guide to The Meaning of Life
2007
Before I Go
Letters to Our Children About What Really Matters by Peter Kreeft
2007
Socrates' Children Volume IV
Contemporary Philosophers
2014
How to Be Holy
First Steps in Becoming a Saint
1722
Summa Philosophica
2011
Socratic Logic
2003
Ask Peter Kreeft
The 100 Most Interesting Questions He's Ever Been Asked
2019
Love Is Stronger Than Death
1979
Yes or No?
1984
Socrates Meets Descartes
The Father of Philosophy Analyzes the Father of Modern Philosophy's Discourse on Method
2007
I Burned for Your Peace
Augustine's Confessions Unpacked
2016
Socrates Meets Marx
The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Founder of Communism
2003
Wisdom from the Psalms
2020
Socrates Meets Machiavelli
The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Author of the Prince
2003
Charisms
Visions, Tongues, Healing, etc.
2013
What Would Socrates Do? The History of Moral Thought and Ethics
2004
Wisdom of the Heart
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All
2020
An Ocean Full of Angels
The Autobiography of 'Isa Ben Adam
2009
Making Choices
Practical Wisdom for Everyday Moral Decisions
1990
The Best Things in Life
A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth the Good Life
1984
The Unaborted Socrates
A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion
1983
Socrates' Children Volume I
Ancient Philosophers
2012
The Platonic Tradition
Understanding Plato's Impact Through The Ages
2012
The Philosophy of Jesus
2007
Socrates Meets Hume
The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism
2010
Socrates Meets Kierkegaard
The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Christian Existentialism
2013
Between Heaven and Hell
A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley
1982
Catholics and Protestants
What Can We Learn from Each Other?
2017
If Einstein Had Been a Surfer
A Surfer, a Scientist, and a Philosopher Discuss a "Universal Wave Theory" or "Theory of Everything"
2009
Handbook of Christian Apologetics
Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions
1994
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
2009
Between One Faith and Another
Engaging Conversations on the World's Great Religions
2017
Socrates Meets Kant
The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child
2009
Jacob's Ladder
Ten Steps to Truth
2013
The Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims
1996
Practical Theology
Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas
2014
The Philosophy of Tolkien
The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
2005
Three Approaches to Abortion
2002
Your Questions, God's Answers
1994
Three Philosophies of Life
1989
C.S. Lewis
A Critical Essay
1988
Socrates' Children Volume III
Modern Philosophers
2012
Between Allah & Jesus
What Christians Can Learn from Muslims
2010
Back to Virtue
1986
Socrates Meets Freud
The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Psychology
2013
Food for the Soul
Reflections on the Mass Readings (Cycle B)
2023
Questions of Faith
The Philosophy of Religion
2006
The Angel and the Ants
Bringing Heaven Closer to Your Daily Life
1994
Ethics
A History of Moral Thought
2003
Letters to an Atheist
Wrestling with Faith
2014
The Greatest Philosopher Who Ever Lived
2021
Prayer for Beginners
2000
Socrates Meets Sartre
The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Founder of Existentialism
2005
The Snakebite Letters
Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught in Tempter's Training School
1998
Prayer
The Great Conversation
1985
I Surf, Therefore I Am
A Philosophy of Surfing
2007
Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
2003
Philosophy 101 by Socrates
An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato's Apology
2002
Ecumenical Jihad
Ecumenism and the Culture War
1996
Doors in the Walls of the World
Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story
2018
Fundamentals of the Faith
Essays in Christian Apologetics
1988
Because God Is Real
Sixteen Questions, One Answer
2008
Confessions of a Cafeteria Catholic
2022
A Summa of the Summa
1990
Socrates' Children Volume II
Medieval Philosophers
2012
The Platonic Tradition
2012
