Peter Kreeft teaches at Boston College in Boston Massachusetts. He is on the Advisory Board of the Catholic Educator's Resource Center.
**Protestants sometimes object to the sacraments by asking.....**
Protestant do not realize that all the Sacraments have Biblical roots.
very engaging piece, however.
speaking only for myself (yeah, sure), life didn't resume for me until I returned to the sacraments.
This is one of the things I mention to fallen away catholics I meet. They all seem to still be searching so I remind them that what they are looking for is Christ in the Eucharist.
Thanks!
I just had dinner with Peter Kreeft on Friday evening. He is absolutely fantastic: a straight-shooter and lively.
You can listen to his lectures at:
http://www.peterkreeft.com/
The fallacy of salvation by faith alone was necessitated by Luther's need to deny the sacraments. I am often struck by how little we actually disagree with most Protestants on the role of faith and work is salvation, yet how vehemently the sacramental life of the Church is denied. This is because the actual dispute over works and faith is scripturally impossible -- the scripture is unanimous on the necessity of good works for salvation. Conversely, a Protestant who is attracted to the sacramental life is a Protestant only for frivolous reasons of upbringing. The Protestant mental trick of presenting the works as a mere fruit of the grace becomes the cornerstone of the desacralization of the Church, and desacralization of the Church is a denial of God's love for the Creation. This denial is at the heart of the Protestant project.
A god who did not give us the sacraments is a god who does not love.
Amen.