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Jesus-Shock (2008)

by Peter Kreeft(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1587313944 (ISBN13: 9781587313943)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

St. Augustines Press

review 1: Peter Kreeft is one of my favorite authors and speakers, and this brief book contains many of the thought-provoking ideas I've come to expect of Kreeft. Good overall. I must admit that, as a Protestant, I wasn't sure what to make of the extraordinary emphasis he puts on the Real Presence in the Eucharist. But I have to appreciate anyone who writes a book as Christ-centered as this one, even if I don't buy into all of its theology.
review 2: This book is a fine example of bad theology; it is Catholic apologetics at its worst.I was excited by the premise, because the Gospel is radical, or "shocking." But the book rapidly degenerates into why the belief in the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist is the real shocker, why it's not idolatry (his argument on... more this is almost childish, saying Protestants are the real idolaters in their failure to recognize the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist), and why the Roman Catholic church is the one true apostolic Church.He greatly generalizes Protestants, lumping them all into one category that very closely resembles modern "evangelical" Christians. He argues that no one challenged the authority of the Bishop of Rome until the Reformation (I guess he's never heard of the East-West Schism, or the Great Schism), that the Catholic Church is the only church that never fell victim to heresy (many Protestants would disagree). His discussion of the Eucharist makes no distinction between the notion of "real presence" and transubstantiation.My greatest frustration with this work is the arrogance and lack of ecumenical understanding contained within. It fails in its apologetic task, in that it does not provide a compelling argument that would persuade non-Catholics to join the Roman Catholic Church. It only serves to preach to the choir.Full disclosure: I am a former Roman Catholic. I left the Catholic church for the United Church of Christ in 2005. less

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