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Philosopher, physicist, historian, priest--the multifaceted Jaki defies easy categorization. Against the prevailing view that science has discredited and supplanted Christianity, Jaki has dared to argue that only Christian metaphysics could ever have given birth to modern science. Perhaps it is arguing such unfashionable positions that has made this Hungarian-born Benedictine so combative, so willing to challenge intellectual orthodoxy, or perhaps it was a native truculence that attracted him to such retrograde positions. Whatever the reason, Jaki never shrinks from a fight, never strikes his colors, and never gives--or asks for--quarter. And though his bellicosity will irritate, Jaki has not garnered academic laurels by relying on mere polemics: his scholarship, though often eccentric, is deep and thorough. Of course, many readers will see only the strangest of anachronisms in a modern physicist who accepts both the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Miracles of Fatima. Yet even skeptics may learn something about modern culture from this account of how one contrary mind learned to wage scholarly war against it. Bryce Christensen
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