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Peter John Kreeft est un philosophe américain.

Professeur au Boston College et The King's College. Auteur des nombreux livres sur le christianisme. Il a formulé avec Ronald K. Tacelli Vingt arguments pour l'existence du Dieu. Il est un catholique inspiré par saint Thomas d'Aquin. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. mars 1937
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“Love gives you eyes.”

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Peter Kreeft

Jesus-Shock

“Kreeft calls the word "interesting": "that all-purpose meaningless euphemism."”

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Peter Kreeft

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings, Ignatius Press (2005), p. 9

“… condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.”

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Ecumenical Jihad, (Ignatius Press, 1996)

“The first existentialist was not Sartre, though he coined the term. Nor was it Kierkegaard or Nietzsche, though most of the textbooks say so. Nor was it even Pascal, though he foreshadowed half of Kierkegaard and was the first to write about the fundamental existential experience of cosmic anxiety and meaninglessness. It was not even Saint Augustine, whose Confessions stands out as the profoundest example of depth psychology and existential autobiography ever written. It was not even Socrates, who alone among philosophers totally existed his philosophy.
Rather, the first existentialist was Solomon, or whoever wrote Ecclesiastes.”

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Peter Kreeft

Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes: Life as Vanity, Job: Life as Suffering, Song of Songs: Life as Love, p. 18

“At exactly the time when the fatal knowledge of how to destroy the entire human race has fallen forever into out hands, the knowledge of morality has fallen out.”

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Back to Virtue (1992), p. 20

“Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.”

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Source: "The Pillars of Unbelief," National Catholic Register Jan-Feb 1988

“Love unifies by individuating and individuates by unifying. At what moment do lovers come into the most perfect possession of themselves as individuals if not when they are most lost in each other? Self, is given up, but "he who loses his self will find it."”

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Matthew 16:25
Source: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven … But Never Dreamed of Asking (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990), p. 74

“Christ's divinity and lordship over one's life is the distinctive, essential faith of Christians: no non-Christian believes that (if he did, he would be a Christian), and all Christians believe it if they do not, they are not Christians.”

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Source: Prayer for Beginners (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), p. 55

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