tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615787.post3648900482652609979..comments2023-08-26T09:34:18.163-05:00Comments on Dead Theologians: Is Peter Kreeft a Catholic heretic?Jared Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18445783451815077626noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615787.post-81763330707903842772010-04-08T11:25:04.903-05:002010-04-08T11:25:04.903-05:00I think it is clear enough that Peter Kreeft is en...I think it is clear enough that Peter Kreeft is endorsing the doctrine of initial faith, which is free and cannot be worked for. Faith is a gift. However, in order to nourish our faith, we must excercise it daily with good works. Kreeft is only agreeging with the first half of Luther's theology (initial faith is a free gift and cannot be worked for) but he most certainly disagrees with Luther in as much as he holds to the doctrine that one's faith is dead and worthless unless it is nourished by good works.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16852380589582295661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615787.post-51432621074965650382010-03-08T06:32:50.556-06:002010-03-08T06:32:50.556-06:00"I may have utter faith, so that I can move m..."I may have utter faith, so that I can move mountains; yet if I lack charity I count for nothing" I Corinthians 13:2<br /><br />He claims John Paul II agrees with him. I'd be very surprised if this was the case and conveniently he doesn't provide quotations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615787.post-44626646836942656202010-01-23T08:46:20.070-06:002010-01-23T08:46:20.070-06:00Which makes the last two popes heretics as well th...Which makes the last two popes heretics as well then, since they say exactly the same thing. And we will not even touch on Paul VI.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615787.post-59737340942963764982009-11-12T21:42:00.027-06:002009-11-12T21:42:00.027-06:00That book by Peter Kreeft is heretical, thus proba...That book by Peter Kreeft is heretical, thus probably why it's one of his less popular among Catholics.<br /><br />As well Kreeft promotes the Penal Substitution Atonement model in his Apologetics handbook. This possibly places him in a heretical or at least heterodox position. Whilst Penal Substitution has not been officially condemned, every major Catholic theologian I've ever heard of has stated that this model leads to Protestant theology which is incompatible with the Catholic faith.<br /><br />So either option 2 or 3.<br /><br />I'm hoping he has moved on from these views (he repudiates sola fide in his recent "Catholic Christianity"). But there are some very well known Catholics with views condemned by or at least frowned upon by the Church. (St. Robert Bellarmine on the Vulgate, Henri de Lubac on Grace & Nature, Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Christ's descent into Hell, Tielhard de Chardin on the Fall of Man, etc.)Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02752373297874435269noreply@blogger.com