Stanley L. Jaki (1924–2009)
Auteur van The Savior of Science
Over de Auteur
Born in Gyor, Hungary, Stanley Jaki was ordained a Benedictine priest in the Catholic Church in 1948 and earned his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Institute of San Anselmo in Rome in 1950. Seven years later he earned a second doctorate in physics from Fordham University in New York. In the toon meer years since, the primary focus of his historical, philosophical, and theological research and writing has been the relationship between theology and modern science. Exiled from his native country, Jaki has been visiting fellow at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1974--76, and was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1987. Jaki is also distinguished university professor of theology at Seton Hall University. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Stanley L. Jaki
Planets and Planetarians: A History of Theories of the Origin of Planetary Systems (1977) 10 exemplaren
Uneasy Genius: The Life and Work of Pierre Duhem (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives… (1984) 10 exemplaren
Culture and Science 4 exemplaren
Les tendences nouvelles de l'ecclesiologie 2 exemplaren
Lectures in the Vatican Gardens 2 exemplaren
Uncodified Conspiracy and Other Essays 1 exemplaar
Olbers Studies: With Three Unpublished Manuscripts by Olbers (History of Astronomy Series) (1991) 1 exemplaar
From objective scientists to objective science 1 exemplaar
Why Believe in the Church? 1 exemplaar
The Garden of Eden: Why? Where? When? How Long? 1 exemplaar
Myths and Facts about Newman 1 exemplaar
Thomas and the universe 1 exemplaar
Maritain and Science 1 exemplaar
The Drama of Guadalupe 1 exemplaar
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Creation, Christ and Culture: Studies in Honour of T. F. Torrance (1976) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 22 exemplaren
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Renowned historian and philosopher of science Stanley Jaki boldly illumines one of the best-kept secrets of science history the vital role theology has historically played in fruitful scientific development.
Beginning with an overview of failed attempts at a sustained science by the ancient cultures of Greece, China, India, and the early Muslim empire, Jaki shows that belief in Christa belief absent in all these culturessecured for science its only viable birth starting in the High Middle Ages. In the second part of the book Jaki argues that Christian monotheism alone provides the intellectual safeguards for a valid cosmological argument, restores the sense of purpose destroyed by theories of evolution, and secures firm ethical guidelines against fearful abuses of scientific know-how.… (meer)