Sigrid Undset's Quest for Truth     Sigrid Undset is often spoken of as the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. She, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, may also be one of the greatest converts during the same century. Contrary to the cliché, Sigrid Undset did not convert because of her fondness for the Middle Ages. In this age of one-parent families and “partner” relationships, it may be most instructive to recall that she converted because her disastrous marriage opened her eyes to what it means for a woman to be a mother and to what children really are, beings created by God for an eternal destiny. That meaning Sigrid Undset found to be anchored in the reality of the Catholic Church insofar as its Founder, Jesus Christ, was truly the Son of God. She then became a staunch defender of the Catholic faith through many essays that have been neglected by her literary critics, most of whom judged her on the basis of her novels, while largely ignoring their true gist. Those essays convey with particular force Sigrid Undset’s quest for Truth and her holding fast to it, once she had embraced it with great joy. The book contains the text of Sigrid Undset’s two pivotal essays, not previously available in English. The author is the winner of the Templeton Prize for 1987. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 978-0-9790577-6-2  •  299 pages  •  soft cover  •  $19
	The Drama of Quantities     Quantities rule modern life and do this increasingly. Their rule at times is tantamount to tyranny. For this man can only blame himself. Galileo was the first to show that motion, and therefore everything in this life, is ruled by verifiably exact laws. But it was the same Galileo, who gave for mankind a pattern in hubris, which in this case was all the more alluring as it came wrapped in science. Galileo argued that only quantities put man into contact with reality and that secondary qualities were a purely subjective matter. The first scientific dent in man’s inordinate respect for quantities came when Gödel formulated, in 1930, his theory of the incompleteness of arithmetic, this basic systematization of numbers. He, however, lacked philosophical and personal qualities to reverse the trend initiated by Galileo. Instead, enormous hearing was given to pontifications in the name of mathematics, such as Norbert Wiener’s statements on cybernetics as if it impinged even on religion. Power over quantitative laws gave mankind undreamed riches, but also impoverished his grasp of his sense of purpose, which implies immensely more than mere quantities. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-47-X  •  78 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5
	Archipelago Church   The Catholic Church has been rapidly changing for now four decades. The changes may appear as a flood, if one considers what has happened in Europe, a continent that a century ago could appear to be a Catholic continent. Catholicism suffered greatly on other continents as well. They all seem to be awash in a flood of secularism and immorality.  This dismal picture is balanced by the emergence of ever new islands of sound faith and spirituality. They are often centered on the Secular Institutes and especially on their core members, dedicated to the three evangelical counsels. There have been in addition an unusually large number of beatifications and canonizations during the pontificate of John Paul II. The men and women so honored serve as the solid foundations of ever new isles of intense spiritual life, the chief sign of the perennial vitality of the Church as if it were an Archipelago in the midst of sinister waves.   by Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 978-0-9790577-0-0  •  80 pages  •  soft cover  •   $5
	ZECHARIAH'S CANTICLE AND OURS   The Canticle uttered by Zechariah upon the birth of his son John became hallowed by its having been prompted by the Holy Spirit. It is a song of joy, which the Church espoused by including it in the Lauds, the morning prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours. As the word “Lauds” stands for praise, Zechariah’s song anticipates the spirit in which the Church praises God for His goodness that reaches its high point in God’s supreme act, the Incarnation, whereby He initiated mankind’s redemption. Therefore the Canticle’s joy in the Lauds is a joy not so much of human make as of a depth matching that of the Incarnation, which culminates in God’s only Son’s death on the cross. What was guessed of all this by Zechariah, who according to a very ancient tradition became one of Herod’s victims? And what should be the joy of Christians as they sing the Lauds? And what should be the joy far more nuanced than the one granted to Zechariah or to his son John, for that matter? Such are the questions confronted in the course of these reflections on the Benedictus.  By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki  ISBN 978-1-892539-01-4  • 67 pages  •  soft cover  •   $6
	A MIND'S MATTER An Intellectual Autobiography In this powerful intellectual autobiography, Jaki reflects on the course of his thinking, asking in what sense the religious factors he holds dear can also promote scholarship, particularly in the sensitive field of science and religion. The answer is set forth in a combination of topical and chronological meditations that will be of great value to anyone pursuing academic work today. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki  ISBN 0-8028-3960-6  • 311 pages  •  soft cover  •   $18

Themes of Psalms The principal theme of the psalms is the praise due to God, the author of a Covenant with man. Reflection on this and other themes may greatly help in turning the use of psalms into ever new songs, as the psalms time and again want this to be. by Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-45-3      96 pages, soft cover      $5

Science & Creation Science and Creation is the first systematic probing into perhaps the most puzzling, but least discussed fact of cultural history: the birth of science.  Cultural history abounds in parallel achievements, but it happened only once, between 1250 and 1650, that rudimentary science turned into a self-sustaining enterprise.  Such a singular process can hardly be without a lesson, the grasp of which might be of crucial importance for the future of mankind. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-7073-0460-1   •  377 pages  •  soft cover  •   $25

Paradox of Olbers Paradox Olbers' paradox is the puzzle of the darkness of the night sky, which should be ablaze at every point if the universe were infinite and filled everywhere with stars. Ever since the German astronomer Wilhelm Olbers' reformulated the puzzle in 1823, he and many after him tried to save the presumed infinity of the universe. They did so for pseudo­metaphysical reasons: an infinite universe could readily pass for the ultimate entity and serve thereby as a substitute God. In the process science suffered. This is the paradox of the paradox, or the paradox of the scientific mind in the presence of a more than scientific puzzle.  By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-10-0   •  325 pages  •  soft cover  •   $24   Soft Cover - $24

J.H. LAMBERT COSMOLOGICAL LETTERS  on the Arrangement of the World-Edifice The Cosmological Letters of J. H. Lambert (1728-1777) is one of the least accessible classics of cosmological literature. Published in German in 1761, it was part of a spurt of publications planned to win Lambert’s entry to the Berlin Academy. He became a member in 1765 although his formal training had ended with grammar school. Genius and determination supplied the rest, but Lambert’s writings always bore the mark of a self-made man’s intellectual self confidence.  It illustrates both the success and the risk of trying to fathom the construction of the universe mainly with the eyes of the mind and without the aid of large telescopes which made Herschel famous twenty or so years later.  The Introduction gives an account of the genesis and reception of the Cosmological Letters based in part on a study of Lambert’s still unpublished correspondence. The translation, prepared for the 200th anniversary of Lambert’s death, is a long needed contribution to the history of cosmology. by J. H. Lambert Translation and Introduction by Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 0-88202-042-0  •  245 pages  •  hard cover  •   $10