Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer / Edition 1

by Peter Kreeft

Overview

Atheistic and agnostic writers are aggressively attacking traditional religious beliefs. Philosopher and prolific writer Peter Kreeft is up to the challenge in this work of popular apologetics aimed at both teens and adults. The masterful Kreeft tackles sixteen crucial issues about the deeper meaning of life. The questions that Kreeft explores range from, "Is faith reasonable?," Can you prove there is a God?", and "Why is Jesus different?," to "Why is sex so confusing?," "Why is there evil?", and "Why must we die?"

Kreeft provides thoughtful, lucid, and persuasive answers for believers, unbelievers, and seekers to consider. As always, Kreeft is insightful, inspiring, and entertaining. This book is ideal for those exploring faith for the first time, as well as for confirmation and religious education classes. It's an intellectual and spiritual feast! This is vintage Kreeft.

"The good news of the Gospel is as exciting as a murder mystery. For at its heart there is a murder: the murder of God two thousand years ago in Jerusalem. And this God is the greatest of mysteries: who He is and why He put us here, and why He came here and what His plans are for us. The story is literally a matter of life or death – eternal life or death."
— Peter Kreeft

"Be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you."
— 1 Peter 3:15

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586172008
Publisher:	Ignatius Press
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	239
Sales rank:	649,068
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, is one of the most widely read Christian authors of our time. His many bestselling books cover a vast array of topics in spirituality, theology, and philosophy. They include How to Be Holy, Practical Theology, Back to Virtue, Because God Is Real, You Can Understand the Bible, Angels and Demons, Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing, and A Summa of the Summa.

Table of Contents

Introduction     7
Why are questions good?     13
Why do I exist?     23
Why is faith reasonable?     35
How can you prove that God is real?     45
Why believe the Bible?     61
Why is Jesus different?     73
Why be a Catholic?     91
Why go to Church?     105
Why be moral?     119
Why is sex so confusing?     137
Why do we have families?     147
Why are there virtues and vices?     159
Why pray?     179
Why aren't we happy?     189
Why is there evil?     201
Why must we die?     215
Conclusion     237