Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism If the Memoirs had offered only a vast documentation of some major intellectual and ideological trends that produced the French Revolution, this alone would have assured it a place of honor among such books. But the Memoirs represented the highest form of writing history, or the probing into the causes of one of history's great turning points.  In singling out the combined forces of the philosophes, the French Masonic Lodges, and the German Illuminists, as the decisive factor behind the radically secularist trends of the French Revolution, Barruel himself took a stance that amounts to a standing revolt against what has come to be the "received" view.  In the Introduction, Stanley L. Jaki gives valuable details, not available elsewhere in English, about Barruel's career and correlates his thinking with modern social and religious developments. By Augustin Barruel  •  Introduction By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-9641150-5-0  •  887 pages •  hardcover  •  $58

The Voyage to Lourdes Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) is possibly the only Nobel-prize winner (medicine, 1912) who witnessed a miraculous cure. Its beneficiary was a young woman, Marie Bailly, on the verge of dying of tubercular peritonitis. Her sudden cure took place in Lourdes on May 28, 1902, under Carrel•s scientific as well as skeptical eyes. In this book, Carrel describes what he saw and what he thought as one who had by then come to the conclusion that there was no need for belief in God and Revelation. The gift of faith came to Carrel only after many years following his gripping experience in Lourdes.    by Alexis Carrel  •  Introduction By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-9641150-2-6  •  95 pages   •   softcover   •   $12

History of the Variations of the Protestant Church "The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches" remains not only the greatest book of Bossuet (1627-1704), but also a classic in its field. Such works retain an instructiveness even in times that do not wish to be instructed about some basic, unalterable facts. There remains a stark disparity between ecumenical hopes and actual progress towards a reunion between the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches. If one wants to understand this fact, one has to probe into the fact of the great variety of Protestant Churches and into the logic that inexorably generates their doctrinal variations. In presenting this logic and illustrating it with a wealth of statements from the works of the Reformers, Bossuet shifted the interconfessional debate from particular topics to general principles. Herein lies his genius, which is especially relevant for present day ecumenical theology. By J.-B. Bossuet  •  Introduction By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-9641150-8-5  •  678 pages  •  softcover  •  $28

The Shakespeares and The Old Faith "The Shakespeares and 'The Old Faith' • is a doctoral dissertation with outstanding merits. Its author, John Henry de Groot (1902-1974), was professor of English at Brooklyn College from 1946 until 1967. His original training was, however, for the Presbyterian ministry. It should therefore seem all the more surprising that it is to de Groot that we owe a full-scale investigation and convincing demonstration about a much-ignored fact concerning the greatest man of letters, William Shakespeare. He was not only born and raised a Catholic, but kept a basic attachment to his Catholic faith throughout very turbulent times, political and personal. Such is the perspective within which his many references to Christian religion and his fondness for biblical expressions obtain their genuine meaning.  by J. H. de Groot   •  Introduction By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-9641150-3-4  •  276 pages  •   softcover  •  $19