Robert Spitzer (priest)

Robert J. Spitzer (May 16, 1952–) is a Jesuit priest, philosopher, educator, author, speaker, and retired president of Gonzaga University.

Quotes

• Philosophy of science can bring a strong array of analytical and synthetic tools to questions of ultimate causation, ultimate reality and “the whole of reality” because these questions are both physical and metaphysical—entailing methodological procedures from both science and philosophy.
  • Can scientific methods prove the existence of God? (December 29, 2015)

• I’ll just simply say we haven’t done any apologetics in a concerted fashion since Vatican II. I don’t know why. I’m still trying to figure this out myself—why did apologetics became a bad word, why did it become a reflection of some kind of inauthenticity of faith? We’ve somehow drifted into a Kierkegaardianism—we have to take a leap of faith across an infinite chasm. But I’ve never thought that at all! I luckily had great teachers who believed reason and faith came from the same source, with God never intending us to jump over an infinite chasm.
  • The four things keeping millennials from finding God, according to Fr. Spitzer (February 29, 2016)