Philosopher Peter Kreeft (Boston College) asks whether sanctity is our summum bonum (our 'highest good'), and reflects on the resources of pre-modern and modern psychology.
Dr. Kreeft has the most affable, cordial and amiable demeanor that I've ever seen in a high intellectual. I remember this one video I watched in which someone mispronounced Dr. Kreeft's name and he didn't even correct the person but answered the question straight away! So much humility.
Peter Kreeft is my favorite speaker "...We understand epics' ideals, heroic virtues, and heroes because we have the perfect Hero, ..."A literal, incarnate perfect hero Jesus Christ."
Watch him talking about his book about a conversation between Tolkein, CS Lewis and Billy Graham. It's on Eric Metaxas' show. Eric a very smart guy is often left speechless at what Kreeft has to say.
We're so blessed in Catholicism to get the best and brightest that Protestantism ever produced: Cardinal John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Cardinal Avery Dulles, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Dr. Taylor Marshall, Thomas Merton (Celebrated Trappist Monk), Bishop John Lipscomb, Bishop Jeffrey Steenson, Steve Ray, Dr. Robert Sungenis, Ulf Ekman (Swedish Founder of Word of Faith Evangelical Society), Dr. Scott Hahn (Valedictorian Gordon Conwell Seminary), Gerry Matatics, Francis Beckwith (President Evangelical Society), Tim Staples, Deacon Alex Jones, Norva McCorvey, and Abbey Johnson!
James Wallace I wouldn't include "cardinal "Newman, Thomas Merton, Dr. Robert Sungenis, Dr. Scott Hann, Gerry Matatics and probably a few more....the reason is that the Vatican II sect is not the Catholic Church, basically because they deny the seven time infallibly defined ex cathedra dogma "Outside the Catholic Church there is No Salvation" It is the counterfeit catholic Church of the last times prophesied in the Bible and elsewhere ...Our Lady of La Salette, 19 Sept., 1846 ... "Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist, the Church will be in eclipse." mostholyfamilymonastery.com ... to find out Whatever Happened to the Catholic Church After Vatican II?"
It took more than a thousand years for that doctrine to be created....so the Pope of Vatican II is not infallible.....er doesn't that contradict something here.....Kreeft would fall in with the apostates then if you have not listened to his "reasons to be protestant and catholic talk".
Thanks. I like the touching story of Deacon Alex Jones. He and his wife and their loyal church mates' stories are truly remarkable. God rest Mr. Jones' soul .
Jesus in the sermon on the mount, Jesus said, ``Be holy as your Father in heaven is holy.'' In effect Jesus is calling all of us especially Catholics to lead saintly lives.''
Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved. Hence, freewill is given to us to choose either right or left. So choose right for good. 🙏🙏🙏☝️🤲😘
If course when we go looking for free will it is hard to find. The more we explore human behavior, the more we see the behavior of the universe it can't be found. You say we have minds thoughts ideas that distinguishes us from all that. We did not choose to be born or to grow old and die. You did not choose your body, what your skills are. To have a learning disability or to have an IQ of 150. Free will it's so obvious! Try this experiment. Try to observe your thoughts. Just that nothing more. Like a cat watching a mouse hole wait for your next thought. Where did it come from? Did you choose it or did it just arise. If you are adventurous try not to think. Can we choose not to think of pink elephants with yellow polka dots when someone says it? Why do good catholic families try so hard to raise good Catholic children? Are they against your free choice , God's gift to reject God? Just a thought passing through!
Allen: so true. Thanks for chiming in! Was there anything in particular that clicked with you? (Clearly, Kreeft provides so much wisdom, but what was most poignant to you?)
The Table | Biola CCT I am not sure what was the most poignant but this man has a way with words. I would not go so far to say he is Fulton Sheen but he got me to think and that is good. I will most def check out more of his stuff.
I have been reading the conversation between you and France Filiault and I need to ask you a question concerning the RCC and it's view on the OT sacrifices. I just want to make sure that I got the correct understanding. In one of your comments did you write that the catholic church believes that Christ's sacrifice wasn't complete bcuz there was no OT priest present at His crucifixion to offer Jesus as a sacrifice to the Father.
bornagainsaint1 Did you ever wonder why after the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the Jews quit doing blood sacrifices. Why they not built a new smaller temple and continue the practice? After all this was the center of what they believed yet it stopped and Jews never did it again? Why?
Are you saying that the destruction of the temple in 70 AD ended the OT sacrifices or are you saying that Christ's sacrifice ended the OT sacrifices? Hebrews says that Jesus ended the OT sacrificial priesthood.
Each human being is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Being a temple of the Holy Spirit, we are called to know Jesus Christ with intensity and deep love. I love listening to this man.
Doing God's will is also taking the narrow path which can be a painful process and not very joyful. The only way to become a saint is to be willing to suffer for the conversion of poor sinners , including oneself.
Watching this for the first time days after 60 minutes did a story on military’s dealings with 🛸, the enlightenment was similar to the reformation. I must thank my brother for delivering the message my intellectual can’t dismiss due to the faith in mans reasoning and a god who created everything including physics to draw the lost to Jesus. God bless you
Me too. It’s Tuesday 7th September at 3.30pm we are in lockdown 4 and I’m wdd add aching a lot of Dr Kreeft videos. He’s amazingly clever ! Greetings from New Zealand 🇳🇿👍🇳🇿😊🇳🇿👏
I'm deeply impressed by this. I came across similar material, and it was truly remarkable. "The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Living Guide" by Matthew Cove
In my experience, it is possible to overcome someone's mistrust and / or fear. It is by behaving in what is for them a safe way. I know two women who have been abused by men. Both of them feared men in general. I gained their trust by giving them power over my interaction with them. For example: I would ask them permission to sit at a table with them, even though the table was in a canteen. Over time, this profoundly changed how they saw me.
Marcel's idea goes something like this, >> The person is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be discovered. 1:08:09 > PRAY , learn to pray and PRAY
A Monsignor Smith (I believe that was his name) - Cardinal O’Connor’s “trouble shooter” at that time once stated: “There are only Two Experts: Jesus and Mary. Everyone else is a learner” I am glad Dr Kreeft agrees.
Loved this lecture for a lot of reasons. Some questions: The questioner at 1:06:39 asked for practical advice for "a sick person". Is it possible he was asking Dr. Kreeft to say they should go to a Catholic priest for confession? Why isn't that as simple of practical advice as jumping into a lifeboat if the ship was sinking? Was Dr. Kreeft trying to avoid giving this advice? And about the saint that St. Philip Neri encountered during his preaching, I was waiting to hear Dr. Kreeft finish the story and say that woman converted to Catholicism. Didn't this happen?
"You can't cut your soul in half". Yet, Lord Voldemort separated his soul into 7 pieces that he hid in various talismans. We all know how that turned out in the land of mythic modern fiction.
When Jesus said be perfect like the Father is in Heaven I believe He was saying to always be merciful.God admitted to be jealous as well as having a number of human traits and faults but the 1 thing He always maintains is His mercy for us. And that's a thing that human beings have tremendous difficulty with.
I suppose that it would be possible to see sanctity as an abstraction, in the same way that numbers are abstractions. It might be possible to determine the correct behaviour in a pre-defined situation, but the realities and uncertainties of life make it impossible to always choose that behaviour. As a result, human perfection is conceivable, but not achievable.
The natural mind thinks Imagination isn't God in them, good and evil repeat if you judge. Ecclesiastes 3:15: “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.” The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”
Catholic Church is God through us, baptized Christians in spite of our wretchedness! May the will of our Father made known by the Son through the power of the Holy Spirit triumph and reign in us through Ever Virgin Most Powerful Mother of God, Mary, Queen of the Universe! Thank you for the reminder that Catholicism is the science of saving souls from lies and the means of sanctifying grace! May the will of our Father made known by the Son through the power of the Holy Spirit triumph and reign in us through Ever Virgin Most Powerful Mother of God, Mary, Queen of the Universe! God died so He wouldn't lie that He did not love you! God's not dead anymore! Alleluia! May the will of our Father made known by the Son through the power of the Holy Spirit triumph and reign in us through Ever Virgin Most Powerful Mother of God, Mary, Queen of the Universe! Modern psychology gives Lucifer's middle finger to God by inventing diseases of the mind to replace ordinary unhappiness as to justify its erroneous existence to help you reject God and thus avoid sanctity to be made in the image and likeness of God! Precious Blood of Sweet Jesus, cleanse us of sinful pride! Wednesday, July 13, 2022 is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!
I’m caeliac and can’t consume alcohol. Maybe communion isn’t for me. Augustin discovered the insufficiency of the will, not the division of the will. He gave up. Not aspired to holiness. We’d be better off quitting trying to be better people and just try not to be awful people
The evil comes from people who refuse to relinquish or surrender to discipline their natural "base weaknesses." Thats where evil originates from. Human wealnesses all so evidently revealed in the Bible, and by the Buddha. But people have taken a these teachings and built religions around them. Not even taking the time to search the texts to discern for themselves. Instead they practice life caught up in rituals and traditions of their respective societies. Totaly misrepresenting the Wisdom they have been given. The Bible is the "revelation of the human condition and its interaction with the world at large." It is all their, good actions, bad actions. The evidence of human weaknesses, and the promise and hope of strength to overcome those weaknesses. The "discernments" gained of the Bible, the Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Paths, ALL summed up in the teachings of YESHUA combined should ultimately create strong disciplined minds. BUT ONLY DIRECT YOUR PRAYERS TO YEHOVAH THE SUPREME UNIVERSAL ORIGIN OF ALL LIFE. SAVE YOURSEL, SAVE OTHERS, SAVE THE EARTH TOO. FROM UNDISCIPLINED SELFISH WEAK PEOPLE AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE ACTIONS AGAINST ORIGINAL CREATED NATURE.
Wow. I admit that I didn't watch this since I had watched his whole speech on his "conversion" testimony from Reformed theology to Catholcism. That was plenty enoough to discern that his view of theology and the catholic faith is NOT in any way based on actual knowledge of Biblical doctrine - or even Catholic dogma - but rather his FEELINGS. That vidio did not allow for comments, and so I must make them here. There was absolutely no reference to Biblical truth for his conversion. Nowhere did he address numerous SIGNIFICANT Roman Catholic dogma differences from Biblical Truth (or protestant doctrine.) Also, I noted with a little research, that he has NO theological training since none of his degrees are of any theological content. This man's views or theological conclusions on the catholic/protestant doctrine or value should not be given ANY weight by anyone who is interested in actual Biblical church TRUTH.
lol, you're the walking definition of someone who talks a lot but says nothing of substance. "Biblical Truth" - what do you know about this to discredit Dr. Kreeft ? Just because there is no "Biblical Truth" for his conversion (according to you), does this then mean his conversion is based on feelings ? You can't be serious lol You're starting with the presupposition that Catholics don't have "biblical truth" lol! Imagine of the arrogance of this statement. Unbelievable. That is why Protestantism is failing because of this kind of narrow mindedness.
I like this guy but sometimes he gets to philosophic and goes on tangents. BTW though Jesus named God as Father also. So Father is more than just what men called God. That was I believe a small incorrect statement by the lecturer.
The 12 saints and saving the world from destruction is not acurate. Mr. Kreeft is very knowledable; very impressive to the ego. Thank you for reminding me my ego is well and healthy. If you noticed my bad spelling that is the ego in you! That is a sin, the sin is missing the point. If evil exists, I believe is does relative to my limited understanding and its source is the ego. I do not believe that having a strong will is the amswer. That evil inclination is stronger than the undeveloped spiritual me. I think you have to be smarter and not stronger. Like taking a headach pill for a headach, having a powerful will is the short long way the only way is the long short way and that takes hard work like anything worthwhile it is the ability to concertrate the mind on study, worship & meditation. Writing this is again me sinning as the time would be better spent on study and deep contenplation. I understand that I do not yet understand the level of my ignorance.
Possibly it is a form of humility,,he probably knows more about it than most people but to say that would be going against his Christian humility.Besides if he claimed sanctity he would then have a plethora of people like you being the first to....... rubbish him.
Daniel Alexander I hope you don't mind if I ask you a question in regard to your question. What is an expert and who decides if someone is one or not? If I call myself an expert should I be trusted? Is a mother an expert in child-rearing or is a student of child psychology with no children one? I'm not being contrary, I am sincere in my question.
Many good points abhorrent "not my problem attitude", you are gay? Not my problem, become a monk or something doesn't matter that your decision to do so is merely externally imposed and not due to an Internal desire for monasticism, or dunno try to deny the simple reality that you are what you are, yes be a realist on everything exept that... And I am sure a lot of people will give me very "not my problem" criticisms to this comment... Or ignore it as they simply ignore those that that "not my problem" mental filter applies. He who is without sin may throw the first stone, go stone some abortionists or ban some law that in your opinion are unholy, surely you aren't an abhorrent amalgamation of pride wrath and hypocrisy. I'll quote a priest that here in Italy has divided the believers, a freedomfighter, someone that fought the nazis with his own two hands and that continued to fight against injustice all his life, for someone he is the unrecognized st. Francis of today, to other a communist demon, don't give me your opinion on the matter I don't give a damn "I am on the side of the poor the undesirable of this planet, the excluded that roam the genoese nights, and I don't just immediately give them an eucharist and try to convert them, I prefer the streets and I say to them: do you want to chat a bit with me" "Savonarola was a rebel, as rebels are the words of the Gospel, and I cannot help but notice that the sinners, prostitutes and dispossessed of these "evangelical splinters" are the tramps, the stragglers, the trans, the homeless and the without rights of today, those "dogs in church", unfortunate and unwelcome, but favored by the Lord, which the society of facade respectability has forgotten, idolizing money and power." "Tell me who you exclude and I'll tell you who you really are" Culture this and culture that, evil gays here and evil gays there, how the hell do you have time to look at the speck in your Brother eye and stone him for his sins when you should be worrying about the plank that is in yours and you should be occupied in loving him and your God unconditionably. You are lying when you say that you want a timeless church, you want a very specific church from a very specific timeframe, because you care more for the Institution and it's traditions than your own God. Just as you are lying when you say you are oppressed, and are not interested in politics, cause it's not you that Is beated in the streets and you are pretty much well placed in the halls of Power, give unto Caesar what's is Caesar my ass, you pretend you have the right to ban things because they are in you opinion against God, so much for free will I suppose, God himself didn't impose himself on mankind but It seems like you can do It just fine. Not to mention that it seems that you care only for the right of the baby to be Born, which yes is sacrosanct, but you don't give a damn on what shall happen to it once it's Born, cause once it's out of there it falls into the "Not my problem" folder, or what happened before such as why the mother got where she got. Instead of giving God 's Mercy to the sinners of this world, and we are all sinners, you think you can exclude, hate, dismiss, impose, fuck off you dirty pharisees
OK, so you're gay and I'm an alcoholic. Encouraging me to drink by saying we're all sinners is not being merciful to me. Encouraging sodomy is not being merciful to you. Check your own hypocrisy.
Why waste your breath on these protestants? They don't believe in sanctity or holiness. They believe we are rotten to the end and do not change under the influence of grace.
Saints are not appointed by a Pope. Saints are those who follow Christ and are born again. Catholics! Reject the lies and read your Bible. Learn for yourselves what the Bible has to say and ask your priests lots of questions.
+al meggs They are sciences. They are new, and they must depend on correlation, because it is unethical to take people and societies apart as we would were they nonhuman, but they depend on replicability and falsifiablity of research results just as much as the other sciences. They deal with something very complex, the human 'I', and must do so from the inside of that 'I', which makes their job very difficult, but they are sciences.
They are it is thanks to phsychology and socialiology that people like me who struggle with mental illnesses can be helped and not be labeled as demonic because of our mental illness .Be careful your comment is insenitive.
There are more good Priests then bad. You can not throw out the Catholic Faith because of the sins of a few. Also, there are more sex abusers that our married men who have failed in their positions in life. It is a moral failure in them not the Faith.
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