Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith

by Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli

Overview

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, including key distinctively Catholic doctrines. 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.

An expanded, Catholic edition of the popular book Handbook of Christian Apologetics, 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 Christ
• Christ's resurrection
• Life after death
• Heaven, hell, purgatory
• Salvation
• Christianity and other religions
• Objective truth
• Sacramentalism
• The Eucharist and the Real Presence of Jesus
• Mary's role in the Christian order
• The authority of the Church
• Communion of saints
• Faith and works
• Catholicism as Complete Christianity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681497020
Publisher:	Ignatius Press
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
Sales rank:	162,684
File size:	630 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

A Personal Preface 9

Part 1 Introduction 11

1 The Nature, Power and Limitations of Apologetics 13

2 Faith and Reason 30

Part 2 God 49

3 Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God 51

4 The Nature of God 95

Part 3 God and Nature 107

5 Four Problems of Cosmology 109

6 The Problem of Evil 127

Part 4 God and Grace 155

7 The Divinity of Christ 157

8 The Resurrection 185

9 The Bible: Myth or History? 211

Part 5 God and Glory 235

10 Life after Death 237

11 Heaven 271

12 Hell 297

13 Salvation 332

Part 6 Conclusions 359

14 Christianity and Other Religions 361

15 Objective Truth 382

16 The Bottom Line 408

17 Twenty Catholic Capstones to Christian Apologetics 417

Bibliography 459

Subject Index 467

Scripture Index 489