In an unjustified way they leave the realm of their own scientific disciplines and make a priori philosophical deductions against Christian belief. Stanley Jaki has also refuted such approaches to the cosmos and creation in his masterly work, The Purpose of It All , published in 1990. The originality of Jaki's thought also lies in the link which he describes between the dogmas of the Creation and the Incarnation. Jaki then discusses how the Jewish position on creation underwent a change during the first few centuries of Christianity. Jaki clearly affirms that in Christianity, a slide into pantheism was prevented because the doctrine of the creation was bolstered up by faith in the Incarnation.
Pantheism is invariably present when the eternal and cyclic view of the cosmos prevails.
The uniqueness of Christ secures a linear view of history and makes Christianity more than just one among many historical factors influencing the world. This emanationism, which reduced the transcendence of God by making the world almost divine, obviated the need for any real Incarnation. Father Jaki has shown that science is possible in the first place because the entities studied by the sciences are believed to form a real and orderly whole, a cosmos, in principle accessible to human reason. It is precisely this Christian doctrine of creation which, according to Jaki, was the stimulus for the unique viable birth of science. The Christian doctrine of creation finds its expression within the Church.