Fictional Jesuits
The 'Jesuit scientist' has been used as a character of faith in several works of science fiction, some examples include:
- Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez - A character in James Blish's A Case of Conscience.
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell features several Jesuit scientists with the main one being the linguist Emilio Sandoz.
- The Star by Arthur C. Clarke features a Jesuit scientist in a prominent role.
- Father Paul Duré, a Jesuit theologian, archaeologist, ethnologist, and follower of Teilhard de Chardin - A character in Dan Simmons's novel Hyperion
Read more about this topic: List Of Jesuit Scientists
Famous quotes containing the word fictional:
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)