The Chesterton Review announces Special Stanley L. Jaki Issue - Seton Hall University
Thursday, December 9, 2021
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
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The issue contains an Introduction by Dermot Quinn, an unpublished article by Jaki,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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