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14 Cards in this Set
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Kreeft (Dates and Location)
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Born 1937, Lives neat Boston, USA
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Kreeft (Education)
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A. B. Calvin College (1959) (Christian Reformed College)
M. A. Fordham University ( 1961) Ph.D. Fordham University (1965) NOT a theologian, a philosopher and good writer. |
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Kreeft (Background)
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Grew up in the Reformed Church
Dutch Calvinist Anglican Roommate |
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Kreeft (Influences)
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C. S. Lewis
St. John of the Cross Thomas Aquinas through Philosophy William Harry Jellema (Calvinist Teacher) Realism not Nominalism Kirkegaard - but his proposition was quirky and individual |
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Kreeft (Agenda - Protestant)
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Protestants should see that Catholicism is not accretion Protestant theology is modern nominalism
Protestants have audible imagery like Catholics visual Historicity of Catholic Faith, the "Ark" Church is Body of Christ Incarnate Church wrote the Bible Justification by Faith is as strong in Aquinas and Trent as it is in Luther and Calvin Good works, not product of "gratitude", but of supernatural life, Christ in us. Justification not "legal fiction" |
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Kreeft (Catholic)
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So Catholics will once again know and embrace their faith.
Salvation is by Grace through faith, not of good works, or Church attendance, or compassion. Don't reduce miracles to myths, dogmas to opinions, laws to values, and the Body of Christ to a psycho-social club |
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Thesis (Kreeft)
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The Catholic faith is that which constitutes a "full gospel" christianity, where the sanctifying grace of God in us through the work of Christ unifies our belief, life, and worship.
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Compare and Contrast: Justification (Kreeft)
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Kreeft's expression of Will-Faith contrasts Calvin
Confused on Luther? p.126b |
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Compare and Contrast: Revelation (Kreeft)
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Once source, although statements on reason are a bit muddled (26–28)
Revelation through Eucharist (321) |
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Compare and Contrast: Free Will (Kreeft)
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Denies "Total Depravity" p. 66, yet cf. 127d. and bottom of f.
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Compare and Contrast: Salvation (Kreeft)
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p. 76a vs. 78 #20. Struggle with Vatican II p.130b
p.88 Holy Spirit (Baptism? cf. 129.19) |
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Agenda (Kreeft)
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Summarize and Explicate the Catechism of the Catholic Church for both Protestants and Catholics
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Compare and Contrast: Structure (Kreeft)
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Belief, Live, Worship. A little over a third is doctrine, with two thirds for how doctrine applies to life and worship.
The Creeds, Decalogue and Liturgy are formative elements in the structure. |
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Why THIS book? (Kreeft)
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Because the Christian faith is in the Catholic faith, and the Evangelical expressions lack fullness in explaining sanctity of life, and how all of our belief (credendi) affects our life in relationship with God (Orandi), and with man (vivandi). These are inter-related. Because the key issues between Catholics and non-Catholics is not what protestant evangelical mythology says it is.
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