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Title: Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0-87784-389-9 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb first apologetics reader . . .
Comment: Between Heaven and Hell is the perfect book for a Christian to give to friends who are interested in the faith. In this afterlife dialogue between C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and John F. Kennedy we see how a Christian answers different worldviews. C.S. Lewis represents Christianity. Kennedy represents the common American view that Heaven (if it exists) is about one's personal good outweighing his bad. Huxley represents eastern religions and pantheism.
I've bought this book several times and given it to co-workers and friends. You won't care if you get it back, because you know you've put a good book in someone's hands who may need it.
The book is brief, packed with great arguments, and a very accessible read. If you enjoy sharing your faith with friends, you'll buy several.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing Concept Gets You Thinking
Comment: Take the time to throroughly read (then re-read) this conversation.
Humanism has a foothold in America today largely due to seemingly logical arguments that truly don't hold up when put through the tests of human experience, historical record and even unscientific realities, such as faith. This is a short book for any thinking person that wants to evaluate Christianity as it compares to the other major world views.
Rating: 3
Summary: Fun, but why not buy a book by the real Lewis or Huxley?
Comment: Those impatient with psychological interpretations of literature should skip this review.
Before us stands the case of Peter Kreeft, respected Christian scholar, admired teacher, professor at Boston *College* (which I must mention since I caught hell for mistakenly believing he taught at Boston University). He has an obvious affection for C. S. Lewis, whose writings have influenced him tremendously. One suspects a deep yearning in him to be the "next C. S. Lewis." Such a deep yearning, in fact, that popularizing and recycling Lewis's thought was not enough: he had to adopt Lewis's persona, revive him as a character in a book--in short, *become* Lewis. See also: Harold Bloom, Anxiety of Influence.
Notwithstanding, Kreeft has done an entertaining, and occasionally sparkling, job of imitating his hero. But hero worship can be harmful, if it dazzles the worshipper into paralysis. To be Lewis's successor it is not enough to take up his weapons; one must take them into battle. On today's battlefields. Kreeft seems content to refight old wars, stabbing enthusiastically at the corpses of Lewis's fallen opponents. Meanwhile the enemy has levied new troops and marched on other lands.
And even that might be okay, if it weren't for one more thing: there is no "dialogue" between the characters. Rather it's Lewis again and again scoring points off "Kennedy" and "Huxley." Whether Kreeft was fair to Kennedy is for others to say; the actual Huxley I'm sure would have acquitted himself much more ably than he does here. Huxley's written legacy shows him to have had remarkable and deep spiritual insight as well as intellecutal subtlety and erudition. He was not the simple-minded pantheist he comes off as here. ("Artistic license" is not an adequate excuse.) A real conversation between these two men of extraordinary gifts would have been fascinating. Until some hidden cache of letters between them comes to light, you'll have to read Lewis and Huxley and imagine their dialogue for yourself.
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Title: Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0830823387 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Best Things in Life by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0877849226 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: July, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli ISBN: 0830817743 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0877848106 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees by Peter Kreeft, Blaise Pascal ISBN: 0898704529 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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