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| | Description | Unbelievers, doubters and skeptics continue to attack the truths of Christianity. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is the only book that categorizes and summarizes all the major arguments in support of the main Christian beliefs. Also included is a Protestant-friendly treatment of Catholic- Protestant issues. The Catholic answers to Protestant questions show how Catholicism is the fullness of the Christian faith. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is full of the wisdom and wit, clarity and insight of philosophers Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli. This is an informative and valuable guidebook for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason. Whether you are asking the questions yourself or want to respond to others who are, here is the resource you have been waiting for. Topics include: faith and reason, the existence of God, God's nature, creation and evolution, providence and free will, miracles, problem of evil, Bible's historical reliability, divinity of Chris, Christ's resurrection, life after death, salvation, the Eucharist, Catholic hierarchy and more. |  |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Peter Kreeft | | Paperback: | 494 pages | | Publisher: | Ignatius Press | | Publication Date: | June 30, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1586172794 | | Package Length: | 8.8 inches | | Package Width: | 5.9 inches | | Package Height: | 1.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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 Book given as a gift May 31, 2010
I brought this book entitled: Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith by Peter Kreeft for visiting priest from India who is a scripture scholar. I also have this book and I found it very apologetics in Catholic faith.
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Handbook of Catholic Apologetics Mar 29, 2010
Purchased as the reference book for a Youth Class on Apologetics. Found it well written, covers numerous topics fully without extra fluff. The Personal Preface is excellent, I sighted it as some of reasons and purpose of apologetics. It is not a a basic book, but it is also not over your head. Layed out well, easy to follow.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A Great Book on the Greatest Conversation Nov 06, 2009
Wisdom is knowing and doing what's right. To be wise, one must know reality is, and in particular, if there is a God and if man has an immortal soul. The Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is a outstanding book that presents cogent arguments in favor of God's existence, man's immortal soul and the truth of Catholicism. The Handbook is a Summa Theologica for the 21st Century, and like the Summa, it is very well written.
Most of the books written by atheists claiming that God is simply a fairy tale are shallow, simplistic, not fair and dead wrong. So it's refreshing to see a book on apologetics that is clear, concise, fair and comprehensive. Having read 55 of Peter Kreeft's books, most of Kreeft's books are excellent, and the Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is Kreeft at his best.
The key measure of any book is "Is it true?" Yes, the Handbook is true, and its message is important. Philosophy has been called "The Great Conversation" since it deals with great ideas. This book deals with several great questions and does a fair, comprehensive, clear and compelling weighing of the pros and cons and comes to a correct conclusion.
If you're looking for a Great Book, look no further - here it is. If a genie were to pop out of a lamp and grant you a wish, a good wish would be to ask for wisdom. The handbook is exceptionally wise. There's a quotation that "Without God, there is only darkness; with God, light is useless." If God is dead, then man is dead. For those wishing to escape the darkness, read this enlightening book.
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for the serious student Oct 15, 2009
Kreeft and Tacelli's book on Catholic Apologetics is first of all a book of definitions and reasoned philosophical thinking. It is cogent, lucid and provocative. I initially thought it would be "too dry", but found it instead to be intriguing, well thought out, and a good tool for the mental toolbox of any serious student of religious thought in the marketplace.
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 Not as "Catholic" as I would have liked... Aug 26, 2009
This book is the Handbook of Christian Apologetics with an additional chapter on "Catholic" issues at the end. While I do really like this book and think that the Handbook of Christian Apologetics is a 5-star book, this book attempting to be a handbook of CATHOLIC apologetics was a bit disappointing, as another 3-star reviewer mentioned. A handbook on Catholic apoloegtics should have whole chapters devoted to topics like Mary, historical controversies, salvation, etc. as opposed to only a couple of pages at most on 20 topics, as important as they are. So I just thought that as a handbook for specifically Catholic issues, the book is lacking.
But otherwise, it is an excellent book and one of the premiere works for a philosophical defense of the Christian faith from the ground up. Some highlights from certain chapters:
The book contains the best exposition of the relationship between fath ad reason I have ever read. The authors point out the very obvious yes penetrating fact that given any two collections of things (in this case, the collection of all faith statements and the collection of all reason statements), there can only be 5 possible relationships between them. All of one are the other (or vice-versa), none of one are the other, they are the same, or there is a partial relation. The authors then go on to describe how these 5 statements correspond to 5 types of thinking; rationalism, fideism, a kind of modernism, and two others without names. It provided an excellent framework to think about faith and reason.
One chapter is spent looking at 20 arguments for God's existence. Some of them I had not seen before and were quite interesting, especially Descarte's "ontological" argument. At first it seemed silly to me, but then I thought a bit more about it and thought that there may be more to it. Taken as a whole, this chapter provides a good overview for the arguments for the existence of God. The authors are careful to note what the arguments do and don't do. For example, the moral argument does not give us the attribute of omniscience and the design argument does not necessarily say that God is interested in a relationship with us. Theism and Christianity are carefully distinguished in this chapter.
The chapter on who Jesus was/is is excellent. The authors are careful to go thoughly through every possibility; that is, was Jesus lunatic, liar, lord, legend, or guru? Each option, except lord, is carefully weighed and shown to be extremely lacking and problematic. The authors take the time to make a solid case, and look at each option from all angles, demolishing any hope of holding to any of the non-lord options. Just from looking at all the possibilities and exhausting everything except lord, the authors show that it is indeed possible to rationally hold (in fact, most reasonably) that Jesus was lord.
Thus, the book is very good and a solid defense of theism, truth, and Christianity, but doesn't give the full range and breadth of exposition that I would have liked to see for a book attempting to defend specifically Catholic issues.
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