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	<P> Graduating <I>summa cum laude</I> from 
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montréal, Canada, 
Jacques Beaulieu did a Honours degree in Physics 
at Université de Montréal before going to Oxford as 
a Rhodes Scholar. Attached to the Oxford Engineering 
Department and junior member of Corpus Christi College, 
he did research in Electrical Plasma Physics at the 
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's
 Culham Laboratory. </P>
<P>He found the hard way that something 
published in the scientific litterature by 
professors from well-respected institutions is 
not necessary true. This forced him to take the time 
 to check other people's works 
rather than take them for granted. He applied this
to his teaching of physics, going back to the sources
and checking how the experiments were conducted.
This same  careful scrutiny is also
applied here in his research on the Gospels.</P>
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<P> While in Oxford, he met Linda Nadin, a Catholic
Convert who had completed a B.A. in English Litterature 
at Oxford's St Anne's College and 
was working at the Bodleian Library. 
They married at the Oxford Chaplaincy.
 Together they moved to Montréal where he taught at 
Brébeuf College. They have three sons. 
They now have lived for more than twenty years in the Montréal Borough of
Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and 
are members of the Roman Catholic Parish of 
Saint Aloysius,
 Archdiocese of Montréal.</P><P>
After nearly thirty years of teaching, he took 
early retirement and focused on theology, 
a subject that had fascinated him all his life. 
<B>Life, Love and Law</B> is his first book. He brings to this subject 
a scientific mind and a down-to-earth view.</P>
	<P> He prefers common sense to 
scholarly authority, logic to tradition. When the need arises, he 
goes back to the original Greek Gospel text but
 without the usual preconceived translations that 
have stiffled any fresh reading 
of these familiar texts.  He sees the Gospels
as straighforward rather than mystical, as
forming a very coherent whole rather than a set 
of somewhat unrelated ideas. </P><P>
James Alison's work not only
convinced him of the need of a fresh reading of the Gospels but 
sowed the seed of some of the ideas found in his  book <B>Life, Love and Law</B>. 
</P><P>He is also much interested in Genealogy and Québec History. His work on
these subjects as two of his Physics textbooks are available at
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