Please try to carpool to Kreeft on Thursday.
Plymouth Heights CRC is letting us use ONLY THE SW part of their parking lot
If you are able, please park farther away so elderly and other-needs folks can have a shorter walk.
Reserved spots around the church building will be coned off for elderly and handicapped folks.
Dr. Kreeft will be speaking at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Grand Rapids, MI
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and noted Roman Catholic apologist and philosopher. He is an alumnus of Calvin College (AB 1959) and Fordham University (MA 1961, Ph.D., 1965). He taught at Villanova University from 1962-1965, and has been at Boston College since 1965. Dr. Kreeft has received several honors for achievements in philosophical reasoning. They include the Woodrow Wilson Award, Yale-Sterling Fellowship, Newman Alumni Scholarship, Danforth Asian Religions Fellowship, and Weathersfield Homeland Foundation Fellowship.
As a Calvinist, Kreeft regarded the Catholic Church "with the utmost suspicion." A key turning point was when he was asked by a professor at Calvin to investigate the claims of the Catholic Church that it traced itself to the early Church. He said that on his own, he "discovered in the early Church such Catholic elements as the centrality of the Eucharist, the Real Presence, prayers to saints, devotion to Mary, an insistence on visible unity, and apostolic succession." The Church fathers such as Augustine and Jerome were clearly Catholic and not Protestant. And that discovery changed him forever.
He is now a regular contributor to several Christian publications, is in wide demand as a speaker at conferences, and is the author of over 45 books including Fundamentals of the Faith, Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven, and Back to Virtue. An expert commentator on the writings and message of C.S. Lewis, Dr. Kreeft has a clear, entertaining, and literary style that makes him easy to understand and a pleasure to read. He is considered to be among the best contemporary Catholic authors.
September 5, 2010 (Parish Bulletin)