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The Chesterton Review announces Special Stanley L. Jaki Issue - Seton Hall University

 

South Orange, N.J. –December 2021 – The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University announces the publication of a Special Stanley L. Jaki Issue—volume 47, nos. 3 and 4, Fall/Winter 2021—of its widely recognized journal The Chesterton Review.

About the Special Stanley L. Jaki Issue

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Special Stanley L. Jaki Issue of The Chesterton Review

Of the many descriptions that G.K. Chesterton has enjoyed over the years, one of the most intriguing is that he was a "seer of science." Chesterton was not a scientist, of course, but he had profound things to say about the way that modern scientists go about their business and about the outsized role they are sometimes allowed to play in contemporary civilization. As a critic of that exaggerated faith in science that goes by the name of 'scientism,' he knew that the best kind of science was aware of its own limitations. "The world has [not] increased in clarity and intelligibility and logical completeness," he wrote in 1930. "[It] has grown more bewildering, especially in the scientific spheres supposed to be ruled by law or explained by reason." A year later, Kurt Gödel stunned the mathematical world by saying the same thing.

It was Father Stanley Jaki who first called Chesterton a "seer of science" and so it is fitting that a special issue of The Chesterton Review be devoted to a priest and physicist who did much to promote Chesterton's thought inside and outside the scientific community. A man who combined scintillating intellect with a certain polemical pugnacity, Jaki was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1987 "for his immense contribution to bridging the gap between science and religion" – words that could equally apply to Chesterton himself. At his death in 2009, Jaki was described by the New York Times as a "relentless scholar" with over forty books to his credit, one of them devoted to Chesterton.

The issue contains an Introduction by Dermot Quinn, an unpublished article by Jaki, along with memories of him by a former colleague, Monsignor Richard Liddy, and a former student, Dr. Bill Cheshire. Other articles include pieces by Dermot Quinn, Father Joseph Laracy, Geir Hasnes, Landon Loftin and Father Paul Haffner. As with all issues of the Review, there is also a good selection of Chesterton's own writing, along with Book and Film Reviews, as well as many News and Comments items, quite a few of them scientific in nature as well as Letters, Photo Galleries, and an account of our work in 2021.

About the Chesterton Review
Founded by Father Ian Boyd, and now edited by Professor Dermot Quinn, The Chesterton Review is the journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and has been widely praised for both its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. It was founded in 1974 by Father Ian Boyd, C.S.B. to promote an interest in all aspects of Chesterton's life, work, art and ideas, including his Christian apologetics. It includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself, but also on the issues close to his heart in the work of other writers and in the modern world. It has devoted special issues to C.S. Lewis, George Bernanos, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring, Christopher Dawson, Cardinal Manning, the Modernist Crisis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Fantasy Literature, Special Polish Issue, Special Agrarian Issue, Special Charles Dickens issue, and many others. It is published twice annually (two double issues).

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