Books

NEW

The Mystery of Joy - 2025
God on Stage
What Would Socrates Say?

Theology and Logic

• 40 Reasons I Am a Catholic — also hear 70x7 Reasons [ YouTube ]
• The 100 Greatest Philosophers — Socrates' Children
• 52 Big Ideas — from 32 Great Minds
• Practical Theology — Spiritual Direction from Aquinas
• Letters to an Atheist — Wrestling with Faith
• Summa Philosophica — 110 key questions in philosophy
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics — Life's most crucial questions
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics (Pocket Version)
• Fundamentals of the Faith — Inspiring essays in Christian apologetics
• You Can Understand the Bible — A Practical Guide To Each Book
• The Man Who Left His Mark
• Catholic Christianity — A complete commentary on Catholic Catechism
• Summa of the Summa — The essential passages of Summa Theologica
• A Shorter Summa — The essential passages of the Summa (shorter)
• The Philosophy of Jesus — The wisdom of Christ
• Yes or No? — Straight answers to tough questions about Christianity
• Why Does Everything Come In Threes? — A short book about everything
• Socratic Logic — A Logic Text

Relating to God

• I Burned for Your Peace — Augustine's Confessions Unpacked
• How to Be Holy — First Steps in Becoming a Saint
• Doors in the Walls of the World — Signs of Transcendence
• Prayer For Beginners — An accessible, concise primer on prayer
• Charisms: Visions, Tongues, Healing   [transcript of audio]
• Prayer: The Great Conversation — Straight answers to tough questions
• The God Who Loves You — All loves excelling
• Ha!: A Christian Philosophy of Humor
• Back to Virtue — Traditional moral wisdom for modern moral confusion
• Wisdom from the Psalms — inexhaustible inspiration
• Wisdom of the Heart — Good, True, Beautiful
• Jacob's Ladder — Ten Steps to Truth
• Probes: — Deep Sea Diving into Saint John's Gospel
• Making Choices — Practical wisdom for everyday moral decisions
• A Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life
• Food for the Soul
• The Journey — Lively dialogues dealing with life's moral dilemmas
• Making Sense Out of Suffering — A brave look into meaning
• Three Philosophies of Life — Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Pascal

• Between Heaven and Hell — C.S. Lewis, John Kennedy, Aldous Huxley
• Shadowlands — Behind the movie, Lewis's most moving passages
• C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium — Essays on The Abolition of Man
• The Philosophy of Tolkien — The Lordship of Christ in Lord of the Rings
• Celebrating Middle Earth: Lord of the Rings — On western civilization
• Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées — Surprising insights

The Culture War

• Jesus-Shock — The live Christ
• Catholics and Protestants — Learning from each other
• Confessions of a Cafeteria Catholic
• Between One Faith and Another
• How to Win the Culture War — The Call, Enemies and Battlefields
• Ecumenical Jihad — A combat manual for the culture wars
• A Refutation of Moral Relativism — A conversation
• Three Approaches to Abortion — A thoughtful and compassionate guide
• The Unaborted Socrates — A dramatic debate on abortion
• The Snakebite Letters — Devilishly devious secrets for subverting society
• Between Allah and Jesus — Learning from Muslims (Author Commentary)
• How to Destroy Western Civilization — the Cultural Abyss

Surfing

• If Einstein Had Been a Surfer — A Philosophy of Surfing
• I Surf, Therefore I Am — An exploration of Surfing
• The Sea Within — Waves and the Meaning of All Things

Socrates

• Socrates Children
• Socrates' Children: Ancient Greatest 100
• Socrates' Children: Medieval Greatest 100
• Socrates' Children: Modern Greatest 100
• Socrates' Children: Contemporary Greatest 100
• The Platonic Tradition
• A Socratic Intro to Plato's Republic
• Philosophy 101 by Socrates — An introduction via Plato's Apology
• The Best Things in Life — Socrates probes success, power and pleasure.
• Socrates Meets Decartes — Questions modern Discourse on Method
• Socrates Meets Hume — Questions the Father of Modern Skepticism
• Socrates Meets Jesus — Questions Christ.  See the play!
• Socrates Meets Kant — Questions this most influential modern child
• Socrates Meets Kierkegaard — Questions on Christian existentialism
• Socrates Meets Machiavelli — Questions the author of The Prince
• Socrates Meets Marx — Questions the founder of communism
• Socrates Meets Sartre — Questions the founder of existentialism

Kids

• Because God Is Real — Sixteen questions, one answer
• Talking to Your Children About Being Catholic — A treasure trove of ideas
• Your Questions, God's Answers — Solid responses for Catholic teens
• Before I Go — Letters to Children About What Really Matters

Heaven

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven — One look
• Love Is Stronger Than Death — Our terminal illness explored with God
• Angels and Demons — What do we really know about them?
• Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing — A fascinating search for total joy

Novel

• An Ocean Full of Angels  (Also: the Strange Story behind the novel)

DVD

• The Philosopher's Bench — with Dr. Tom Howard

Highly Recommended by Dr. Kreeft

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
• Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
• The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Audio Courseware 

• Ethics — Moral Thought in History
• Faith & Reason — The Philosophy of Religion
• The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica
• The Platonic Tradition — Plato's central idea: The Theory of Forms