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  <title><![CDATA[Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ]]></title>
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  <default_description>What would happen if Socrates--yes, the Socrates of ancient Athens--suddenly showed up on the campus of a major university and enrolled in its divinity school?What would he think of human progress since his day?How would he react to our values? To our culture?And what would he think of Jesus?Peter Kreeft, Christian philosopher and longtime admirer of the historic Socrates, imagines the result. In this drama Socrates meets such fellow students as Bertha Broadmind, Thomas Keptic and Molly Mooney. Throughout, Kreeft weaves an intriguing web as he brings Socrates closer and closer to a meeting with Jesus. Here is a startling and provocative portrayal of reason in search of truth.In a new introduction to this revised edition, Kreeft also highlights the inspiration for this book and the key questions of truth and faith it addresses.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Kreeft]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 21 16:38:47 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 08:22:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book - maybe I'm really congratulating myself for having read a &quot;logic&quot; book and not only finished it, but enjoyed it.  That's what it takes to get me to enjoy one of these ...<br/><br/>The scenario is that Socrates, having lived and died before Jesus, would never have know His cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47088320">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 12 15:16:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the corny sense of humor, I really like Kreeft.  I was really cheering for Socrates by the end of this book.  Humorously exposes typical college student fallacies about Christianity.  I hope my teen will read it before she goes off to college.  Gave it three stars only because I don't like t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67134238">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 12:59:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought Kreeft did a great job of crafting some believable back-and-forth conversation.  And I think the end result is to cast a piercing light on the foolishness of so much of our modern-day &quot;wisdom&quot;.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 17:21:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You think you've got it all figured out, do you?  Match wits against Socrates and find out just how logical the Bible really is.  Hilarious and humiliating treatment of mankind; a great comedy.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75305257]]></url>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 22 16:27:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome! I loved it!! great thoughts]]></body>
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    <review id="67121893">
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up the other day from our bookshelves. Enjoyed the first dialogue with &quot;Bertha Broadminded&quot; immensely. ]]></body>
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    <review id="28122347">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 23 19:45:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 10:07:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of this book is that Socrates (yes, Athens Socrates) stumbles into &quot;the quad&quot; at a quaint university -- and goes to theology school. It attacks stereotypes and asks very  probing questions. This book is dense. Read it -- i think you'll like it :)]]></body>
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    <review id="2088213">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 18 13:28:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[randomly borrowed from my college library one lazy warm summer afternoon. laid on the grassy campus grounds and found myself consumed within the few pages, unable to put it down. humorous and thought provoking.]]></body>
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    <review id="19157915">
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  <read_at>Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going to have to read this one again.  Like other books by Kreeft which I've read, this one is so jam-packed with deep 'stuff' that it will take more than one reading to get it all.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19157915]]></url>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very illuminating.  The premise is thought provoking, and challenges some of the stereotypes out there.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I seriously cannot wait to read this.  I love Peter Kreeft.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent apologetic of the Christian faith.]]></body>
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