With brilliance and creativity, Peter Kreeft has taken all of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew and provides us with questions for each in a totally contemporary setting. Kreeft asks 285 questions in the form of “letters to Jesus”, each in the voice of a different questioner such as a Convinced Capitalist, Fellow Traveler, Modern Martyr, Antilegalist, Perplexed, etc.
With brilliance and creativity, Peter Kreeft has taken all of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew and provides us with questions for each in a totally contemporary setting. Kreeft asks 285 questions in the form of “letters to Jesus”, each in the voice of a different questioner such as a Convinced Capitalist, Fellow Traveler, Modern Martyr, Antilegalist, Perplexed, etc.Unlike any other book, the genius of this book is its clever matching of question to answer (taken verbatim from Matthew). The questions are at once original, relevant, and poignant. They get to the essence of Jesus’ teaching as it applies today. The reader will experience delight, instruction and inspiration simultaneously as he eagerly leaps from one question to another, pondering Jesus’ intriguing answers.
Unlike any other book, the genius of this book is its clever matching of question to answer (taken verbatim from Matthew). The questions are at once original, relevant, and poignant. They get to the essence of Jesus’ teaching as it applies today. The reader will experience delight, instruction and inspiration simultaneously as he eagerly leaps from one question to another, pondering Jesus’ intriguing answers.Published December 31st 1989 by Ignatius Press (first published March 1989)

Peter John Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of numerous books as well as a popular writer on Christian theology, and specifically Roman Catholic apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".
Kreeft took his A.B. at Calvin College (1959), and an M.A. at Fordham University (1961). In the same university he completed his doctoral studies in 1965. He briefly did post graduate studies at Yale University. He joined the Philosophy faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Boston College in 1965. In 1994 he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
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