“Apologetics, Christian or other, is always a risky enterprise,” the late Stanley L. Jaki once wrote. “Once caught in apologetic zeal, one can, especially if one is a historian, easily overshoot the target.” It was a characteristically shrewd insight, and one that might be applied to certain aspects of Jaki’s own remarkable career.
Born in Hungary in 1924, Jaki left for the United States at a very young age—newly ordained as a priest of the Benedictine order—and began teaching undergraduate French at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. An insatiable curiosity led him to continue his studies after earning a theology degree, and in 1954, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics.
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