Ewwww, get a room!
Posted on 08/31/2013 9:40:36 AM PDT by Heart-Rest
Hear Dr. Peter Kreeft tell his fascinating story of his conversion from Evangelical Protestantism to Catholicism.
Dr. Peter Kreeft's conversion to Catholicism from Protestantism (Full)
Ay, que hombre guapo!
It is not for nothing that I am known as the Notorious Nuclear Niceness Nazi ... but honestly ... “Papist propaganda”? I couldn’t help myself.
I love Hahn as well, and his account of the way he, an evangelical Protestant minister, scholar, and professor came into the Catholic Church is compelling. It’s good to hear how he studied and studied and questioned and read and read some more. But comparing the mild Kreeft and the passionate Hahn is like comparing apples and oranges. They have different approaches to apologetics and each has its value.
It does both sadden and amuse me when I hear my former fellow Protestants say that Protestant could only come into the Church if they didn’t know their faith and the Scripture very well. Hahn is of course a very fine Bible scholar and writer, and he is representative of many serious Protestant Bible scholars who are swimming the Tiber.
True, and I wasn't ascribing overall superiority to Scott Hahn, simply saying I find him more appealing as a speaker. As a writer, I like Kreeft equally well. Their approaches aren't particularly similar: Scott Hahn's is much more in Biblical study, while Peter Kreeft's emphasizes classical philosophy.
Perhaps you need to see my list of converts to Catholicism.....thing is ...I’m still working on it, since I lost some of my links due to an old computer.
Now you won't be able to post all six of 'em???
Ewwww, get a room!
How about fifty six — just a wild guess. LOL!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2820143/posts
Sure, you THINK you see the pope kiss the Koran, but I bet you also THINK you see him do so in front of the Muslim who gave it to him. Nope. The man in the picture is a Christian. Which brings up the next question: If it was the Koran, did the Pope know this? It’s common Arab protocol to kiss a gift one has received, and the Pope could easily have been simply following protocol respectfully, and not recognizing that the gift was, if it was, a Koran. Has anyone ever read anything which confirms that he Pope knowingly kissed the Koran?
The symbol on that book makes it obvious that it is a Koran that he is french kissing. From the original news story:
“”At the end of the audience the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book, the Qu’ran, presented to him by the delegation, and he kissed it as a sign of respect. The photo of that gesture has been shown repeatedly on Iraqi television and it demonstrates that the Pope is not only aware of the suffering of the Iraqi people, he has also great respect for Islam.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=10415
He also bowed to it. LOL
Related: Hispanic Catholics leave the RCC for Islam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS-WebyfbIM
Although it's a "simple, humble, modest little book," there's great depth there, and all so compact you can carry it in a clutch purse with your paperback Gospels.
I'm sure that as a teacher he has trained many successors. What a wonderful kind of fertility.
You might be surprised to hear it, but it's not just apostates or people who are superficial in their faith who swim the Tiber. For many very conservative Christians, it's not something they even want to do; it's the only logical option after years of study, trying to reconcile their desire to remain Protestants with the ineluctable facts they discover while reading the early Church fathers and studying history.
As an example, on this thread we have mentioned the name of Dr Scott Hahn, a former Protestant who struggled and studied for years to avoid becoming a Catholic. He has since become one of Catholicism's foremost lay writers and explicators. Here's the story of how this serious and brilliant scholar of the Bible was dragged, with shock and dismay, into the Catholic Church. Scott Hahn's Conversion
And spot on accurate. He helped get me back into the Catholic Church, well his books did.
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And he has quite a lot of different topics covered there too!
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Almost 2,000 years ago, many of His disciples also actually left Jesus Christ Himself back then too -- the Son of God, "King of Kings", and "Lord of Lords".
After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him. John 6:66
Although it's a "simple, humble, modest little book," there's great depth there, and all so compact you can carry it in a clutch purse with your paperback Gospels.
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I love that book!
I've read it a number of times already, and always get more out of it each time.
For a "beginner's" book, it really does "have a lot packed into it", and "great depth" too. It is good also to just take it to the prayer chapel and read just a page or so, and reflect on it and pray.
Others here might want to take a look at it. Here's another place one can get it:
The charge of us using radio frequency to push our Roman institution is a unfounded myth!
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