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My title explains itself.But it's misleading.There are more than 40 reasons.In fact, there are at least ten to the 82nd power, which, I am told, is the number of atoms in the universe. And that's just in ordinary matter, which makes up only 4.9% of the universe, the rest being dark matter and dark energy.Each of my reasons is an independent point, so I have not organized this book by a succession of chapters or headings. After all, most readers only remember a few big ideas or separate points after reading a book. (I've never heard anyone say "Oh, that was a good continuous-process-of-logically-ordered-argumentation" but I've often heard people say, "Oh, that was a good point."Which takes me back to my main point: "Why are you a Catholic" is a good question.A good question deserves a good answer.Here are forty of mine.
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Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and also at the King's College (Empire State Building), in New York City. He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications, is in wide demand as a speaker at conferences, and is the author of over 55 books. Dr. Kreeft is a convert to the Catholic Church from reformed Protestantism. He earned an A.B. degree from Calvin College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University, followed by post-doctoral work at Yale University. He has received several honors for achievements in the field of philosophy, including the Woodrow Wilson Award, Yale-Sterling Fellowship, Newman Alumni Scholarship, Danforth Asian Religions Fellowship, and a Weathersfield Homeland Foundation Fellowship.
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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press (March 15, 2018)
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ABSOLUTE PROS: I haven't purchased an apologetics book for over 10 years. I've read enough to know what I need to know about the trickier components of Catholic theology and have moved on to use my time in more interesting pursuits. Apologetics are incredibly important... but eventually you come to realize that "the truth will defend itself..." and you stop needing books filled with "good continuous-process-of-logically-ordered-argumentation" as Kreeft quipped.So I only bought this book because I'm a Peter Kreeft junkie and find his writing so beautiful and simple, profound and accessible.I love the book. I read it in just over an hour. I want to buy 30 copies of it and hand it off to any person with any shred of honesty who is interested in religious dialogue. The 40 reasons are as profound as "Because I need dogmatic certainty about God, and Christ and salvation" all the way down to "Because of the nouns" and "Because of cathedrals." The book is brilliant in its very simplicity. And for those well-versed in apologetics, this boils all the theological nuances (which are of little interest to the vast majority of laymen) down to extremely attractive, thought-provoking and strong bullet points that can be easily remembered and shared with people in real life and online where the attention span is severely lacking. Can't recommend it enough.SUBJECTIVE CONS: The cover is ugly; I've always disliked that image of Jesus. The title is boring and the book will be overlooked by the many who think they've 'heard it all before...' That said, I don't pretend to have a better title in mind. "I'm Catholic Because of Atheism"? Who knows...OBJECTIVE CON: And it is singular. There was no mention of the Orthodox faiths other than in passing when referencing Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Now his arguments can be applied to the Orthodox through inference (like the chapter on the Nicene Creed...) but I would've loved to see something very specific that addressed why NOT to choose Orthodox.
A little over 500 years ago in 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on church doors in Wittenberg, Germany stating, in essence, that the Catholic Church was the Whore of Babylon and the Pope the AntiChrist. Having been accused of being a prostitute, the Catholic Church responded with the Reformation, claiming that though the Church had made some mistakes, the Catholic Church had never been unfaithful to God and was a faithful wife. Now, that chivalrous Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft has published his book, Forty Reasons I am a Catholic, defending her honor quite admirably. If a great book is defined as a book that contains profound truths and beauty told with elegant prose, then this is indeed a great book.Kreeft starts out with arguments demonstrating that Catholic theology and ethics are true and faithful to the Bible. He correctly points out that the only reason to believe anything is because it is true. The lack of truth has important consequences, as he states:“I think He would say that happiness without truth is not true happiness and therefore is not really happiness at all; and that morality without truth is not true morality and therefore is not truly morality at all.â€The book goes through the arguments of atheism versus theism, showing that theism is more rational, and then demonstrating that the Catholic religion is the most in accord with reason. Atheism is called out for being a supremely stupid bet, since it is like playing Russian Roulette with your immortal soul.The main argument used by atheists to deny that God exists is the problem of evil. Many people are puzzled by God’s answer to Job in the Bible as to why God allows evil to occur. Kreeft explains:“God’s answer to Job was essentially the four words he preached to Saint Catherine: “I’m God; you’re not. The two most important principles He has given us in dealing with this great mystery are humility regarding ourselves and trust regarding Him, who is all wise, all loving and all powerful.â€Next, a pantheistic conception of God, if it isn’t a person, isn’t moral and omniscient, and isn’t the type of god one could swear allegiance to.A further problem with pantheism is that the pantheist God is everything, so he would contain good and evil. Who would worship a god that is partly evil?C. S. Lewis’s “Lord, Liar or Lunatic†argument is cited as evidence that Jesus was God. Kreeft elaborates on that argument as follows:“If that’s who He really was (either liar or lunatic), then who invented the Jesus of the Gospels, who is the polar opposite of both a liar and a lunatic: honest, altruistic, passionate, wise, practical, creative, saintly and fascinating? That last adjective is the most telling one because it is impossible to imitate successfully. Once you get to know them, lunatics are never really fascinating, and neither, once they become familiar, are lying egomaniacs. Even if Jesus is totally fictional, He is the most fascinating and compelling literary figure in human history. Who invented Him? If He is fictional, who invented that new genre of realistic fantasy twenty centuries before Tolkien? A bunch of peasant Galilean fishermen?â€Another argument in favor of the Catholic Church is the infallibility of the Bible. Since the Catholic Church defined the canon of Scripture, the Catholic Church would have to be infallible to create the canon of Scripture. Since many Protestants believe the Bible is infallible, then they need to believe that the compiler of the Bible was infallible, and that definer is the Catholic Church.“When Walker Percy gave “What else is there?†as his reason for being Catholic, his interlocutor continued with something like this: Why, there are plenty of alternatives to the Catholic Church: fundamentalism, Modernism, left-wing liberalism, right-wing conservatism, materialism, spiritualism, pragmatism, idealism, classicism, romanticism, epicureanism, stoicism, utilitarianism, collectivism, pantheism, polytheism, the Age of Aquarius, the New Age Movement, wicca, communism, Neo-Nazism, anarchism, secular humanism, narcissism, drugs, gangs, and the NFL.†Percy replied, “I rest my case.â€â€â€œWalker Percy’s answer is biblical. When Christ taught about the Eucharist, most of His disciples left. He did not call them back and explain that they were wrong to take his words literally. Instead, He said to His disciples, “Will you also go away?†Peter replied, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’â€The Catholic Church uses solid reasoning – apologetics – to defend its theology. As the book states, reason in the Catholic sense is ‘wisdom, intelligence, intellectual intuition, insight and understanding. The Catholic concept of wisdom is a broader, truer sense of the essence of reason.â€As Jesus said, “You shall know a tree by its fruits.†Many of Kreeft’s arguments examine whether the Church’s actions have been faithful to its preaching:• “The Nicene Creed identifies the Church of Christ by four marks: she is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. Only the Catholic Church fits that description.â€â€¢ “She has been right about morality, buying into neither Puritan rigorism and legalism, nor modern subjectivism, relativism, pragmatism or utilitarianism.â€â€¢ “Catholicism is like science: universal and objective. Protestantism is more like practical psychology: individual and subjective.â€â€¢ “The Catholic Church is the greatest repository and synthesis of the wisdom of the past, and the only long-range hope for saving human civilization from spiritual and material destruction.â€â€¢ Since Christians are currently engaged in a spiritual war, the courage of the Catholic Church to fight for truth and genuine morality is another reason to be a Catholic. The Church has fought against totalitarian regimes, genocides, abortion, the sexual revolution and many other evils.• “God incarnate promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Church (Matthew 16:18) and I do not want them to prevail against me.â€â€¢ “Because I want to believe the same things that Jesus taught and that His apostles and their successors and every single Christian in the world believed for fifteen hundred years – I want to believe the same things that all Christians believed until Protestant “reformers†started to cut branches off the tree of the Catholic Faith – truths that all Christians had believed for more than fifty generationsâ€â€¢ “Because of my friends and my family – my spiritual family – I had once (before I became a Catholic) listed the twenty-five authors in the fields of religion, theology, spirituality, and religious philosophy whom I loved and admired the most; and only two Protestants and two Orthodox authors were among them: C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. Arrayed against them were twenty-one Roman Catholics: St. Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, Boethius, St. Anselm, St. Francis, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Nicholas of Cusa, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Catherine of Genoa, Pascal, St. Therese of Lisieux, Blessed John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Venerable Fulton Sheen, Frank Sheed, St. Teresa of Calcutta, and Ronald Knox. All these were waving to me from the ark of the Catholic Church and asking me why I had not come aboard to be with them and share their wisdom from its source rather than ungratefully consuming it from outside. I had no answer. My body and my mind said: Jump!â€â€¢ “The Bible has that, yes, but twenty thousand Protestant denominations have twenty thousand interpretations of the Bible. There are not twenty thousand truths. We need the truth, not just a truth.â€If God is the author of truth and goodness, and if God doesn’t contradict himself, then truth and goodness don’t contradict themselves. So true things are usually good, and good things are usually true. So the great goodness of the Catholic Church is a strong clue that the Catholic Church is true.Another nice feature of this book is a listing of Catholic principles for politics, as follows:1. The principle of personalism (systems and things should serve persons, not vice versa)2. The principle of the right to private property3. The principle of the priority of the common good over the private good4. The principle of subsidiarity (power should be dispersed, not concentrated, both because power corrupts and because smaller societies, such as families and neighborhoods, are closer to issues and problems than larger ones)†As can be seen from the short sampling of excerpts from the book above, Forty Reasons I am a Catholic is a magnificent defense of the Catholic faith and well worth reading. It will inform and inspire you. To sum it up:Peter Kreeft took the facts and gave the Protestants 40 whacks.When he saw what he had done he gave the atheists forty-one.
Amazing read and flows well even for those like me that find reading hurts my brain! If you want to see a bright light of logic shining on profound, objective truth, this book's for you. All Christians can feed their faith with this read. Non-believers owe it to themselves to discover the gift of faith based on reason.
Peter tells us the truth of Catholicism. We know that Adam walks into the Confessional, and we want Christ to walk out. We want to know that the priest who hears our Confession can absolve us of our sinsWe want everyone to be Catholic.
Today I needed a reminder of the reasons that I am and will always be Catholic. The powerful but clear and loving witness of Peter Kreeft are a healing balm to my heart. I am grateful for his witness to the Faith and the One whom I have loved my entire life.
I first read Kreeft as a logic student in college, and was very pleased, as a raised Protestant compelled by the Catholic Church, to find such an articulate, utterly clear, humble, and charming entry-level apologetics for Catholicism.
Peter has a way of teaching the Catholic faith that makes one yearn to know more and to dig deeper into the lives of saints as well as the cathedrals, icons, art and especially the sacraments. His approach makes me want to convince every Protestant to come home to the full richness of Catholicism.
40 very compelling reasons well worth reading and contemplating. Fresh, ancient, challenging, joyful and loving. Good for your soul.
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