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Wisdom and Wonder: How Peter Kreeft Shaped the Next Generation of Catholics
Few figures have impacted the rising generation of Catholics more than Peter Kreeft, the widely respected philosophy professor and prolific bestselling author of over 80 books. Through his writings and lectures, Kreeft has shaped the minds and hearts of thousands of young apologists, evangelists, teachers, parents, and scholars. This collection of eighteen essays, mainly by millennial Catholic leaders and converts to the Catholic faith, celebrates Kreeft’s significant legacy and impact, his most important books, and the many ways he has imparted to others those two seminal wisdom and wonder. Among the eighteen contributors to this book are Brandon Vogt, Trent Horn, Tyler Blanski, Dr. Douglas Beaumont, JonMarc Grodi, Jackie Angel, Matthew Warner, Rachel Bulman, Fr. Blake Britton , and others.
197 pages, Paperback
Published October 26, 2021
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Brandon Vogt
32 books75 followersBrandon Vogt is a bestselling writer, blogger, and speaker. He write about new media and theology, as well as book recommendations and reviews.
He serves as the Content Director at Word on Fire, the Catholic ministry founded and run by Fr. Robert Barron.
Brandon's work has been featured by several media outlets including NPR, FoxNews, CBS, EWTN, Our Sunday Visitor, National Review, and Christianity Today, and he's a regular guest on Catholic radio.
In May 2011, he was invited to the Vatican to dialogue with Church leaders about new media. His first book, The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops who Tweet (Our Sunday Visitor), won first-place at the 2012 Catholic Press Association Awards.
In May 2013, he started StrangeNotions.com, the central place of dialogue between Catholics and atheists. He also launched the Africa eBook Project, which raised thousands of dollars to send digital libraries to seminarians across Africa, and Support a Catholic Speaker Month, where 11,000 people joined to promote new and upcoming Catholic speakers.
Brandon entered the Catholic Church on Easter 2008.
He serves as the Content Director at Word on Fire, the Catholic ministry founded and run by Fr. Robert Barron.
Brandon's work has been featured by several media outlets including NPR, FoxNews, CBS, EWTN, Our Sunday Visitor, National Review, and Christianity Today, and he's a regular guest on Catholic radio.
In May 2011, he was invited to the Vatican to dialogue with Church leaders about new media. His first book, The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops who Tweet (Our Sunday Visitor), won first-place at the 2012 Catholic Press Association Awards.
In May 2013, he started StrangeNotions.com, the central place of dialogue between Catholics and atheists. He also launched the Africa eBook Project, which raised thousands of dollars to send digital libraries to seminarians across Africa, and Support a Catholic Speaker Month, where 11,000 people joined to promote new and upcoming Catholic speakers.
Brandon entered the Catholic Church on Easter 2008.
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January 21, 2022
As I was reading these stories, I often found myself nodding my head in agreement and delighting in these individuals’ stories of how Peter Kreeft affected their lives.
In my searching days before entering the Church, I came across his book “Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions” that he wrote with Fr. Ronald K. Tacelli. This book hit me at about the perfect time. As I was investigating Christianity, I was also concerned that I was fooling myself into thinking any of this could be true. My awareness of my sinfulness, that I was not going to cure myself in some Pelagianism hope. If there was a God, I wanted to know if this was true and not because I wanted it to be true.
Reading this book put away those doubts. That the faith was intellectually rigorous and much more so than the atheism I had accepted most of my life. While the arguments and format were helpful for me, Kreeft’s wit also shows through at times. We are often convinced more through evident joy than through well-crafted arguments.
Over the years, I would explore more of his books and his unique voice. I would later come to see some influences such as Chesterton and Archbishop Sheen in him—which I see as natural integrations. A lightheartedness because he could take himself lightly to turn a Chesteron phrase.
Mostly what I came to understand reading these essays is that I need to re-read many of his books I have and get those I haven’t read (which is a lifetime reading project in itself, considering his prodigious output.) One of the downsides of the enthusiasm of a convert is just how much you don’t yet know and passes you by on a first reading. It is worthwhile to dive in over your head at times since you get that sense that there is so much more there you can return to.
In my searching days before entering the Church, I came across his book “Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions” that he wrote with Fr. Ronald K. Tacelli. This book hit me at about the perfect time. As I was investigating Christianity, I was also concerned that I was fooling myself into thinking any of this could be true. My awareness of my sinfulness, that I was not going to cure myself in some Pelagianism hope. If there was a God, I wanted to know if this was true and not because I wanted it to be true.
Reading this book put away those doubts. That the faith was intellectually rigorous and much more so than the atheism I had accepted most of my life. While the arguments and format were helpful for me, Kreeft’s wit also shows through at times. We are often convinced more through evident joy than through well-crafted arguments.
Over the years, I would explore more of his books and his unique voice. I would later come to see some influences such as Chesterton and Archbishop Sheen in him—which I see as natural integrations. A lightheartedness because he could take himself lightly to turn a Chesteron phrase.
Mostly what I came to understand reading these essays is that I need to re-read many of his books I have and get those I haven’t read (which is a lifetime reading project in itself, considering his prodigious output.) One of the downsides of the enthusiasm of a convert is just how much you don’t yet know and passes you by on a first reading. It is worthwhile to dive in over your head at times since you get that sense that there is so much more there you can return to.
March 2, 2022
A wonderful book that introduces the writings and teachings of Peter Kreeft. The only drawback is that I've never read any actual works by Kreeft, so it was a little like a collection of essays extolling Steven Spielberg films if you had never seen one of his movies.
January 6, 2022
Great book and insightful as inspiring to the intelligence and love of Catholicism by Peter Kreeft.
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