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by Stanley L. Jaki Distinguished University Professor Seton Hall University
Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Numner: 92-60286
Copyright 1992 Marquette University Press ISBN 0-87462-547-5
Second Printing 1998
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE
The Association of Jesuit University Presses
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Foreword
The 1992 Pre Marquette Lecture in Theology is the twenty-third in a series commemorating the missions and explorations of Pre Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75). This series of annual lectures was begun in 1969 under the auspices of the Marquette University Department of Theology.
The Joseph A. Auchter Family Endowment Fund has endowed the lecture series. Joseph Auchter (1894-1986), a native of Milwaukee, was a banking and paper industry executive and a long-time supporter of education. The fund was established by his children as a memorial to him.
Stanley L. Jaki, Distinguished Professor at Seton Hall University, delivered the 1992 lecture at Marquette University on April 5, 1992. Father Jaki is a Hungarian-born Benedictine priest with doctorates both in physics and theology. He has been one of the foremost authorities in the world on the history and philosophy of science. Among his academic honors he was appointed to the Olbers Lectureship, Bremen, 1970; he was awarded the
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Lecomte du Nouy Prize for 1970 for his work entitled Brain, Mind and Computers; in 1975 and 1976 he delivered the Gifford Lectures of the University of Edinburgh which were published as The Road of Science and the Ways to God; in 1977 he gave the Fremantle Lectures at Balliol College, Oxford published as The Origin of Science and the Science of its Origin; he was awarded the Hoyt Fellowship, Yale University, 1980; in 1981 he received the Macdonald Lectureship of the University of Sydney; he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1987; he presented the Wethersfield Institute Lectures in 1987, publishing from these The Savior of Science; he was a Visiting Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and delivered the Farmington Lectures in 1988 and 1989 and published from those lectures God and the Cosmologists and The Purpose of It All; in 1989 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Marquette University. In addition to his own work, Father Jaki has translated and annotated works of Giordano Bruno, J. H. Lambert, and Immanuel Kant; edited a work on John Henry Cardinal Newman; written
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extensively on Pierre Duhem, Lord Gifford, and G. K. Chesterton. In all Father Jaki has published over thirty books and eighty articles.
In the present lecture, Father Jaki first examines the conciliar tradition from Trent to the present with a view to comparing developments in magisterial statements to contemporaneous developments in science, particularly in cosmology. He notes in this connection the curious absence of reference in modern theological discourse to the universe which scientists explore. He then provides considerations of the place of the universe in ancient creedal statements of the Church and in the attitudes of scientists and philosophers in the modern period. Finally, he proposes to modern theology a number of issues which need to be addressed if the Church is to engage contemporary scientific cosomology in a fruitful manner.
REV. EARL MULLER, S.J.
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1. Tridentine Times
Well over three hundred years ago, in 1674 to be exact, a "blackrobe" canoed along these shores of Lake Michigan. He was Pre Jacques Marquette, indifferent to the thought that he would eventually earn high praise as a great explorer. By looking for new waterways to new lands he wanted to bring some good news to their native sons and daughters. And if good men could best carry Good News writ large, Pre Marquette was one. Although only thirty-eight when he died on May 18, 1675, he became one of those who accomplished much and are kept in grateful remembrance.
While still alive, Pre Marquette was thought of highly by precisely those who knew him at close range, a usually most difficult task to accomplish. Two years after his arrival in 1666 in "New France," the superior of all Jesuits there wrote to the Father General in Rome that Pre Marquette was a man "of sound health and strong body, of excellent character and tried virtue; and, because of his
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wonderfully gentle ways, most acceptable to the natives."1
While few among his contemporaries knew more of the world than he did, Pre Marquette was not touched by worldliness. He would have been the last to be puzzled by this paradox. He ventured into a faraway land at a time when the crossing of the Atlantic was a very risky business. Even greater were the risks of running afoul once one ventured outside the fortified places, let alone when one moved deep into still uncharted heart-lands. In some such faraway area lived the Algonquins, the first major missionary assignment of Pre Marquette. He felt at home in a world full of dangers. The reason for his courage lay in his faith that had by then been codified for a millennium and a half in the Apostles' Creed.
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