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Thadeus's Reviews > Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes—Life As Vanity, Job—Life As Suffering, Song of Songs—Life As Love
Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes—Life As Vanity, Job—Life As Suffering, Song of Songs—Life As Love
by Peter Kreeft
by Peter Kreeft
This is a book that struck me as a fundamental book. I have listened to a few of Peter Kreeft’s talks on the web, and his conversational tone comes through in this book. Kreeft makes many comparisons of the three books of the Bible that he shares and the one that struck me most was the one to Dante’s Divine Comedy...Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
The book is full of wisdom and useful insights that can help to provide a good perspective on life. There were plenty of gems in it that I will look forward to revisiting.
Highly recommended!
The book is full of wisdom and useful insights that can help to provide a good perspective on life. There were plenty of gems in it that I will look forward to revisiting.
Highly recommended!
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| 05/07/2014 | marked as: | to-read | ||
| 03/30/2016 | marked as: | currently-reading | ||
| 03/30/2016 | page 20 |
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14.0% | ""Ecclesiastes is the one book in the Bible that modern man needs most to read, for it is Lesson One, and the rest of the Bible is Lesson Two, and modernity does not need Lesson Two because it does not heed Lesson One."" |
| 03/31/2016 | page 31 |
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22.0% | ""Kierkegaard wrote, 'If I could prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.'...Ecclesiastes creates silence. Ecclesiastes is the first and necessary step toward salvation for the modern world."" |
| 04/02/2016 | page 43 |
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30.0% | ""It is all very well to prefer altruism to egotism, to work for the good of others, but what is the good of others? Once I find the summum bonum, it must be shared, yes, but I cannot share it before I find it."" |
| 04/04/2016 | page 53 |
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37.0% | "“There is nothing more boring than an answer to a question you never asked or cared about. Most religious education is like that--most secular education, too. Unlike our human teachers, God did not make that mistake. Ecclesiastes is the question. The Bible is a diptych, a two-paneled picture. Ecclesiastes is the first panel, the question. The rest of the Bible is the second panel, the answer."" |
| 04/18/2016 | page 79 |
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56.0% | ""Today many more people lose their faith because they experience suffering and think God has let them down than lose their faith because of any rational argument. Job is a man for all seasons but especially for ours. His problem is precisely our problem."" |
| 04/18/2016 | page 85 |
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60.0% | ""This world is 'a vale of soul making', a great sculptor's shop, and we are the statues. To be finished, the statues must endure many blows of the chisel and be hardened in the fire. This is not optional."" |
| 04/18/2016 | page 93 |
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66.0% | "'I had heard of you with the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees you.' This is the climax of Job. This is the most important verse in the book." |
| 04/27/2016 | page 110 |
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78.0% |
"Kreeft's piece on "Love Is Work" starting on page 110 is worth reading regularly. It starts out thus, "Love is not passive. Love is singing a duet, and that is work. Joyful work, but work nonetheless."" |
| 04/27/2016 | page 111 |
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79.0% | ""As Kierkegaard points out, love in Christianity is not a feeling, as it is for Romanticism; rather, 'love is the works of love'. That is why Christ can command love. Only a fool tries to command a feeling."" |
| 04/27/2016 | page 115 |
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82.0% |
"On love... "It is the hardest thing in the world to be patient about, for it is the thing we need the most and desire the most. But it is also the most necessary thing in the world to be patient about, for if it is not free, it is not love."" |
| 09/19/2016 | marked as: | read | ||
