Purchase the first three books before the class begins:
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995). [Purchase]
- Stanley L. Jaki, Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe (New Hope: Real View Books, 2017). [Purchase, Kindle version recommended]
- Stacy A. Trasancos, Particles of Faith: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science (Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2016). [Purchase]
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, First Part, Question 45, Articles 1, 2, and 6. [Online]
- Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (Vatican, 1998). [Online]
- Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei (Vatican, 2013). [Online]
- Optional: Stacy A Trasancos, Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki (Titusville: Habitation of Chimham, 2014). [Purchase]
Other Essays
Fr. Stanley Jaki’s Definition of Science
Why Pantheism Stifles Science (and Christianity Does Not)
The Stillbirths of Science in Ancient Cultures
The Radical Scientific View of Biblical Cultures
The Christian Middle Ages and the Greek Scientific Corpus
Fr. Jean Buridan’s Impetus Theory
The Uniquely Christian Birth of Science
