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Fr. Stanley L. Jaki Bio

Stanley L. 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 contains a list of his publications. This is now available through Real View Books. 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 now more than four-decade-long studies that earned him the highest forms of recognition. “

A Mind's Matter

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

Creation and Scientific Creativity

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 • 352 pages • soft cover • $25