The Sea Within: Waves and the Meaning of All Things

Peter Kreeft isn't just another major Renaissance man. Author of dozens of works in philosophy and theology, he has also written the important Socratic Logic, a non-symbolic logic test that uses Socratic method, Platonic questions, and Aristotelian principles.

Above all, though, if you ask him, Peter Kreeft is a surfer... not necessarily of the "Hey, Dude" variety, but rather as an adjunct to his lifelong love affair with the sea.

In The Sea Within, Kreeft presents, in words both crystalline and compelling, why his longing is the longing of all, and why people who never swim (and may not even care much for sand and heat) are drawn to the ocean, just to sit and watch the waves pound the shore in one great heartbeat of nature. And he addresses the question: "why the waves without raise waves of wonder within."

Drawing on his experience as teacher, theologian, philosopher, and wannabe beach bum, Kreeft unlocks the mystery that lies at the core of each of us, of our need for wave-like recurrence for connection, for wholeness with being, and why we find it so well, even if unspoken, even if unconsciously in the sea and the surf. Kreeft wears his learning lightly, with a happy heart and without the self-consciousness that one might have in explaining a love affair between persons, for this love affair each of us shares iwth all of us. The Sea Within offers much to be savored more than memorized, much to make as remember and desire, for as the prophet says, "Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams."