Stanley Ladislas Jaki, a Hungarian-born Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order, was Distinguished University Professor at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. With doctorates in theology and physics, for over forty years he specialized in the history and philosophy of science. The author of over fifty books and about four hundred articles, he served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and as Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. He lectured at major universities in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He was an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, membre correspondant of the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts of Bordeaux, and the recipient of the Lecomte du Noüy Prize for 1970 and of the Templeton Prize for 1987. In addition, he established the Real View Books series to reprint books that are significant to the understanding and defense of Christian doctrine and culture. Each of these books has a long and instructive introduction by Father Jaki.  In 2002 Father Jaki published his "intellectual autobiography," A Mind's Matter,  which is now available through Real View Books. Another booklet with some autobiographical material has been published by Father Jaki in 2005: Fifty Years of Learning The second edition (July 2009) of a book about Stanley Jaki by Paul Haffner, Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S.L. Jaki. is also available through Real View Books. The reader will find in this book the first systematic treatment of those ideas in Father Jaki's more than four-decade-long studies that earned him the highest forms of recognition. A complete list of Father Jaki's publications is maintained online and can be found here.

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	A Mind's Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography     In writing A Mind's Matter one of his generation's finest philosophers looks back at his own scholarship and the intellectual framework that produced it - not least his staunch belief in the crucial role of religious convictions in academic thought.     Stanley Jaki's explosive productivity canvasses a wide range of relevant topics, most notably the history of science, and has earned him such signal honors as the Gifford lectureship and the Templeton Prize. A Hungarian by birth, Jaki has since 1950 lived in the United States, where one's religion is supposed to be a strictly private affair. Yet as a Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order, Jaki has never made secret his dislike of the "rule" that expects to eliminate religious factors from the so-called academic equation. To his mind those factors matter very much indeed.     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.     Ordering this book, you will also receive the two additional chapters Fr. Jaki wrote, covering his later years. A complete list of Fr. Jaki's publication is maintained online, and can be found here. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki  ISBN 0-8028-3960-6  • 311 pages  •  softcover  •   $18
	Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S.L. Jaki Father Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century and his contribution to Catholic thought and culture has been profound, especially regarding the relationship between science and religion. This work focuses on the close link joining science and Christianity, despite the differences between them. Through his study of modern science, theology, and history, Stanley Jaki showed faith and reason are not mutually exclusive. The problems arise because of those ideologies which seek to eliminate God from the ultimate equation. Jaki highlighted the Christian origins of the modern natural sciences. He showed that the concept of the cosmos as both contingent and rational, together with the acceptance that God could work through secondary causes, providing the unique environment for the natural sciences to flourish, from the Middle Ages onwards. He explored the crucial role played by belief in creation out of nothing and in time, reinforced by faith in the Incarnation, in enabling this birth of science. This book contains the firest systematic treatment of the ideas of the late Stanley Jaki, and is the only complete work, with an entire bibliography, approved by him during his lifetime. By Fr. Paul Haffner  ISBN 978-085244-454-2  • xiv + 329 pages  •  softcover  •   $25
	Fifty Years of Learning     This booklet contains the address given at the fiftieth anniversary of Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley, Califomia, March 21, 2007, the Feast of Saint Benedict. The author of this address was one of seven Benedictine Fathers who started Woodside Priory School in 1957. Owing to the upheavals of World War II, they settled in the United States and ultimateIy gathered here to start a preparatory school for boys. They came from the Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary, which celebrated the millennium of its foundation in 1996, with Pope John Paul II being present. The Priory School was at first a small venture but as the years went by it has grown steadily. Fifty years have not failed to teach a great many things here and elsewhere. In this booklet one of the "founding fathers" discusses the lessons he leamed during that time and shares them in the conviction that education is best judged by the lessons it teaches. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 978-0-9790577-5-5 •  16 pages   •  softcover •  $3