Jacek Bacz

BY REASON ALONE

Assembling the Great Puzzle


<<THIS a surprisingly good book. I say ‘surprisingly’ because a theologian like me would like to believe that an engineer, as Bacz is by trade, would not be able to write well about God.

On the contrary. One of the chief virtues of this book lies precisely in what one might stereotype as ‘left brained’ excellence: orderly thinking and presentation. For a book about the reasonableness of the Faith, these qualities seem in the order of things. 

An admirable work of philosophical thinking, it yet possesses all the authenticity of a personal account. The author lets us in on how he reasoned himself out of atheism and into faith. A great number of people could profit from this book. Bacz isn’t someone who tolerates cheap solutions in order to gain religious comfort. But because he ended up where he did, he is able to provide a roadmap for others.>>

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Can we talk about Man, 
Universe and God 
in a simple and meaningful 
language?

Can reason lead to faith and understanding?

Can one man’s journey 
be a road map for another? 



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Recommendations:

In By Reason Alone Jacek Bacz has come up with a particularly fine metaphor for the process of finding one’s way spiritually: the puzzle.

In a lively, quick flowing narrative that is both objective and personal, the author engages intellectual challenges that a modern mind faces when confronted with the issue of religious truth.

Readers will enjoy and learn from Bacz’s account of finding the pieces of the puzzle and fitting them together to form a spiritually sustaining worldview.
David Williams
Professor Emeritus
McGill University
 
By Reason Alone is, as its subtitle suggests, "a great puzzle". It addresses the greatest puzzle, the greatest riddle, that all of us face as we try to make sense of life, and as we try to make sense of ourselves.

What is life? Who are we? These are questions that haunt all of us, or at least all of us who think about these primal things.

For those who don't think there is perhaps no hope. But for those of us who do think, there is not only hope, but also faith and love.

Jacek Bacz shows us in this challenging and rewarding book that reason leads to faith, and that faith is eminently reasonable.

Joseph Pearce
Author: Literary Converts 
The Quest for Shakespeare

About the Author:

Jacek Bacz is a Polish-Canadian engineer and academic with a life-long interest in theology.