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Several recorded lectures from Peter Kreeft are presented below.

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Lectures (free)

1. How to Win the Culture War — A call to arms, identifying the real enemies and mapping key battlefields
   TRANSCRIPTION ADDED 9/29/08
2. Divine Truth—The Heart's Deepest Longing — Explores the nature of self, subjective truth, objective truth and Christ as the Truth
3. Ecumenism Without Compromise — Denominationalism is not just a Christian scandal, but absolutely intolerable
   TRANSCRIPTION ADDED 8/28/08
4. 10 Uncommon Insights Into Evil from Lord of the Rings — Calls attention to Tolkien's great words reminding us about forgotten wisdom on evil
5. A Refutation of Moral Relativism — Not just a strong case against it, but a refutation of the philosophy that no society has ever survived
6. Christ's Concept of Happiness vs The World's — What is the meaning of happiness? How do you get it?
7. Making Sense Out of Suffering — Tackles questions related to the nature of suffering, evil and sin
8. Arguments for God's Existence — Five classic defenses for believing in God
9. Women and the Priesthood — Why "only boys can be the daddies"
10. Aquinas and the Angels — There may be more to angels than it seems
11. Moral Theology and Homosexuality — Traditional moral wisdom for modern moral confusion
12. The Sea and Spirituality — A unique meditation on the sea as an icon of God
13. Lost in the Cosmos — Contrasts two classics, Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos and C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, on the topics of Natural Law, humor and irony, direct and indirect communication, the nature of self, knowing vs. knowing about, and others
14. Mere Christianity — Next to the Bible, C.S. Lewis's masterpiece receives Dr. Kreeft's highest recommendation
15. The Problem of Pain —  A commentary on C.S. Lewis's brilliant exposition on the problems of suffering and evil
16. Till We Have Faces — A commentary on C.S. Lewis's solution to evil, worked out in fiction. Also deals with the fascinating question "Why does God wear disguises?"
17. A Grief Observed — C.S. Lewis's personal and honest account of the loss of his wife, and how God deepened his love
18. God's Existence — A magnificent overview of the arguments
19. Pro-Life Philosophy — The philosophical case against abortion
20. Time and Eternity — C.S. Lewis's insights on these intriguing topics
21. The Cosmic Dance — C.S. Lewis's joyful cosmology of femininity and masculinity
22. The Imagination — C.S. Lewis and the power of creative images
23. Desire — The innate hunger for total joy
24. Sex in Heaven — Imaging the fire of God's love
25. The One Thing Needed — Life's most important activity
26. The Dark Side — Shining light on three kinds of evil:
    suffering, death and sin
27. The Good, True and Beautiful — C.S. Lewis on the three great transcendentals
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28. Christianity in Lord of The Rings — Apologetics in Tolkien's classic
29. Fated and Free — The intregration of predestination and freewill; an insightful perspective via Lord of the Rings
30. Identity — The paradoxical nature of self
31. Language of Beauty — Prose that no writer will want to miss!  The power of words revealed by Lord of the Rings
32. Prayer for Beginners — The practice of God's presence
33. The Word — Scripture as a living portrait
34. Philosophy: Handmaiden of Theology — An interview on the love of wisdom
35. Heaven — The heart's deepest longing
36. Shocking Beauty — NEW! — The live character of Christ

Lectures (CDs for purchase)

• What Would Socrates Do? — A remarkable tour of the greatest minds in the history of ethics (Portable Professor Series). Also available from
  Recorded Books as Ethics, A History of Moral Thought
• Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion

Key Excerpts

Q: If Christianity is intellectual, why aren't more academics Christians?
A: Kreeft on Academics   (MP3, 1:59, 584k).

Q: What has the priority, the head or heart?
A: Kreeft on the Head and the Heart   (MP3, 1:31, 450k)

Q: What is God's most powerful unifying force?
A: Kreeft on Charismatic Experience  (MP3, 1:53, 556k)