God and the cosmologists

Science & Math

Jaki, Stanley L.

Astronomy & Space Science

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In November 1992 the Church of England made its final decision about ordaining women. In March 1994 the first' such ordinations took place in the Bristol cathedral. Between those two dates several bishops and hundreds of priests of that Church asked to be admitted to the Catholic Church. They are those Anglo-Catholics for whom that decision became the last straw. But was it really logical for Anglo-Catholics to wait for that fateful decision? Were Newman alive today, he would point at these much ignored Lectures of his delivered in 1850. There he argued, in the wake of a similarly fateful decision, that Anglo¬Catholics, who took seriously their Catholic aspirations, had no choice but to join Rome. The Lectures are both a penetrat¬ing portrayal of what Newman called "the mimic Catholi¬cism" of the Church of England and a most authentic analysis of what the Oxford Movement was truly about. In the light of recent events, Anglican Difficulties may emerge as the prophetic book penned by Newman. The pro¬phecy is about a "most painful logic at work in ecumenism."

Anglican Difficulties

John Henry Newman. Stanley L. Jaki (Editor)

The voyage to Lourdes

Carrel, Alexis

"Originally published by King's Crown Press, 1946, reprinted 1947."

The Shakespeares and "The Old Faith"

Literature & Fiction

John Henry De Groot

History & Criticism

This book would have done justice to a professional historian of science when it was first published in 1903. Its author was a Jesuit Church historian, but one fully alive to the needs of Catholics and Christians in his day, the closing decades of the nineteenth century. He regaled them with a splendid "contribution to the history of culture in the 19th century," to quote the subtitle of the book. Those decades were reverberating with the claim that science had discredited the Christian Creed and that scientists, by and large, had abandoned religious convictions as the final obstacles to a human culture steeped in science.As befitted a conscientious and accomplished historian, Father Kneller tracked down the record which fully disclosed the falsity of that claim. Even after almost 100 years, his book bursts with information, not easily available elsewhere and certainly not in a similarly impressive synthesis. The book is a paramount proof that, during the nineteenth century, believing scientists of stature far outnumbered their counterparts with materialistic convictions.

Christianity and The Leaders of Modern Science: A Contribution to The History of Culture During the Nineteenth Century

Religion & Spirituality

Karl Alois Kneller

Religious Studies

Memoirs illustrating the history of jacobinism

History

Barruel

World

By calling his book the true story of the Vatican Council of 1870, Cardinal Manning (1808-1892) aimed at dissipating a dark cloud of fase notions. In its lucid simplicity and factuality his book remains the best concise account of what was debated and defined at Vatican I and of its importance for the Church in the modern world.As Archbishop of Westminster, Manning, one of the foremost converts from Anglicanism, was in the very center of those debates. In fact, without him papal infallibility might not have come up for debate at Vatican I. Called by some of his antagonists "the devil of the council", he was a providential and prophetic voice there.Manning's formulation of the alternative, "It is Rome or licence of thought and will," should seem particularly relevant in these decades of runaway social disintegration within which only Rome's voice remains clear, unbending, and consistent-in witness to its infallibility.In the Introduction by Fr. Stanley L. Jaki, Cardinal Manning's book is put in the context of social as well as theological issues. Fr. Jaki, a world-renowned historian of science, is also widely known for his monograph, Les tendances nouvelles de l'ecclesiologie (reprinted during Vatican II), and his books on the papacy: And on this Rock: The Witness of One Land and Two Covenants and The Keys of the Kingdom: A Tool's Witness to Truth. He is an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the recipient of the Templeton Prize for 1987.

The True Story of the Vatican Council

Henry E. Manning. Stanley L. Jaki (Introduction)

The Defence of the Priesthood

Fisher, Saint John. Introduction by Stanley L. Jaki

Converts to Rome a Guide to Notable Converts From Britain and Ireland During the Twentieth Century

John Beaumont

From back cover: "This book is the eighth collection of essays by the author that in a good part deal with science. The first essay deals with a strange and very late awakening to the bearing of Godel's theorem of physics. The second is concerned with a similar though much earlier fact, nameley, Galileo's oversight of a wholly mistaken statement of Aristotle on the laws of motion. The next five essays have for their topic, in part with an eye on Duhem's work, the role which Christ, or rather belief in him played and still plays in a proper grasp of the history of science and evven of brave utterances about extra-terrestrials. In chapter 8 attention is focused on the relation of relativity theory to religion, with special reference to Einstein's own statements, whereas the question of purpose as a problem in biology is discussed in chapter 9. The next three chapters deal with the broader societal questions of bioethics. Chapter 13 offers an analysis of the conversion to Catholicism of Karl Stern, a noted Jewish psychiatrist. Chapters 14-15 deal with Chesterton, whereas teh thought of Thomas Aquinas constitutes the topic of the concluding two chapters." "Stanley L. Jaki is a world-renowned historian and philosopher of science with more than fifty books to his credit. He is the winner of the Templeton Prize for 1987."

A Late Awakening and Other Essays

Stanley L. Jaki

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