Jesus Shock by Peter Kreeft

(New York: Wellspring, 2012-05), 168

From Pascal's Penseés: "Not only do we only know God through Jesus Christ, but we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ; we only know life and death through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ we cannot know the meaning of our life, or our death, of God or of ourselves." (22)
The core of the disagreement of the reformation was not justification by faith, religion and politics, the Bible, the corruption of the Church, the Pope, Mary/the saints, purgatory: it was about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (29)
the Church as the "Theory of Everything", the unified field theory in religion (29)
George Macdonld's The Golden Key is his favorite fairy tale (and Tolkien's also) (33)
- the Golden Key is allegorical for Christ
"Because of His omnipresence, nothing is secular…He unites everything except sin." (36)
"God is such a gentlemen that He asked permission from His mother to be born! (48)
"Find a parish that sings. Better yet, make your parish a parish that sings." (53)
The transcendentals:
- Beauty, Truth, Goodness
- "These are the three things we all want infinitely an absolutely. They are the three attributes of God our very nature tells us about." (53)
- Christianity is succeeding in Truth and Goodness, but not beauty anymore
From Meditation in a Toolshed by C. S. Lewis: "Everything in this world is to be looked-along, and God looked-at, for everything is a means and God is the end." (122)
"Man is a cathedral, and God is the builder." (132)
"Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit! 1 Corinthians 6:19
"The Eucharist is a sword. It is pointed at your heart. This is not a clever ploy of mine, an image I invented; it is pure scriptural logic. For the Eucharist is Christ, and Christ is the Word of God, and the Word of God is a sword." (143)
LOTR reference 146
quote 156: he loves us for our own sake

Created: 2013-12-05
Updated: 2024-01-30-Tue