Dr. Peter Kreeft - "Making Sense out of Suffering"
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Join renowned philosopher and speaker Dr. Peter Kreeft for a lecture and discussion on the meaning of suffering. In today's world, the amount of suffering we read and hear about can be difficult to comprehend. In our own lives, too, we wonder how God could allow us to suffer for seemingly no good reason. Dr. Kreeft will discuss how philosophers have tried to make meaning out of suffering.
Dr. Peter Kreeft is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and a renowned speaker. He has written over 80 books on a wide range of topics including philosophy, theology, J.R.R. Tolkien, and surfing.
I love Dr. Kreeft. I could listen to his wisdom daily. Thank God for his inspired wisdom. He's taken my faith to another level.
I have Just discovered Dr. Kreeft and I am so happy with that! So many thanks!
Wonderful interview! I too, just discovered Dr. Kreeft and would love to hear him speak in person someday.
A drama, a love affair! I love it! Freedom with clues. ❤ Keep us in partial knowledge and partial ignorance. Thank you Dr. kreeft. Thank you for the recommendation of grief observed.
What I find most satisfying on a gut-level is knowing that we have a God who has literally felt our human suffering, not through some distant abstract divine knowledge but through real human experience in His own body, in His own flesh and nerves. Jesus felt the pain and suffering of intense torture, violence, abuse, naked humiliation, betrayal/infidelity, the death of family/friends, rejection, mockery, abandonment, fear, hunger, thirst, toil, poverty, imprisonment, etc. He could have removed Himself from all that suffering, but He didn't. So instead of removing our own suffering, He says, "Behold, I will suffer all of it with you!" From a selfish perspective, God condescended to the old adage, "Misery loves company." From a relational/familial perspective, God showed the greatest of compassion.
While the academic/intellectual answer to suffering is important, I think there needs to be more talk of Jesus, the Son of Man, who says,"I have felt your pain, all of your pain. What you feel now, I too once felt in my own flesh. You cry out for my Father to spare you, but He did not even spare me, His own Son! So please, trust in my Father now, as I did during my own passion. See in my own wounds and my own glory the proof that the Father and I are trustworthy. I know just how much it hurts right now, but I promise you an answer to the mystery, though you cannot bear it now. And I promise you a joy and glory far-surpassing the present suffering, if you will only trust me. Until then, know that I myself have felt it all, and know that I will be with you through it all."
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Brilliant! Our Lord felt serious doubt and sweated blood in Gethsemane, and he knows what suffering His Children are undergoing. He is especially close to the 💔 brokenhearted, to those in the greatest mental, physical, and spiritual suffering on earth. The Church needs to minister to these people and talk about these issues from the pulpit.
When I want some spiritual insight from contemporaries, , I go to Dr Kreeft or C.S. Lewis. CS is the most Catholic non Catholic Theologian and Kreeft is a convert.
Same for myself
Dr Kreeft fits the Catholic definition of a wise man. He could not speak wisely had he personally not suffered. Happiness is not the English "happenstance." Rather, it is closer to the Greek, "eudaimonia," a good spirit. His mini lecture brilliantly expresses so much with so few words. I believe he meant to footnote Kierkegaard when he said, "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." He asked the unsolvable, eternal questions of the Humanities, "Why do we fall in love?, "Why is music so powerfully beautiful?", "What is the meaning of suffering?, and "What happens when we die?"
Brilliant man
To live is to suffer.
The deaths,cruelty to mankind,the voiceless and emotional ,physical pain,how can make sense it??
Thank you for this video.
Hello! I used to read some of your books back in 2007ish!
The student hosts of this interview would've been well served to do a shot and loosen up a bit before this event. If I didn't know better, I'd think they were robots. Poor kids. They've got a front row seat to profound wisdom and it's bouncing off them like rain on a tin roof. "That's... really... interesting." No offense folks, but just because you're religious doesn't mean you have to be serious. God is love and beauty. He also has a great sense of humor. Be like God.
About the problem of hell, some say the word translated eternal in the new testament doesn't mean eternal and that Jesus actually taught that hell was temporary, I'm not saying I believe it myself but I used to and the case is stronger than most people give it credit for.
Hell must be permanent, as it is outside of time. Permanent suffering is it's definition, if it is not permanent it is not hell.
Dr Kreeft, is consecrated celibacy a "higher vocation" (TTMHS, PCF, 1995, 35) than male - female couple marriage?
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A bit of intellectual obfuscation?