The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

by Joe P. Provenzano, Ron D. Morgan, and Dan R. Provenzano

Modern science tells us that our “physical” universe began in a highly ordered, but unstable, non-physical state where even the laws of physics were not fully formed. It’s almost like something spiritual became broken. Evidence for design is apparent in evolution and has baffled scientists for decades. Yet, it is a world full of evil, suffering and death. On the other hand, Scripture tells us that God created everything, and it was good. But when Lucifer and other angels fell, all hell broke loose! Literally. Can we reconcile these two accounts of creation in a way that provides deeper insights into the mysteries of both the scientific and the biblical accounts of creation? The Fallen Angel Model addresses that question by speculating on whether our evolving universe, filled with physical and moral evils, is somehow linked to the fall of the angels.

Photo on bottom left: Presenting The Fallen Angel Model at the Robson Ranch Library

Paperback $14.99 | Kindle $9.99

SYNTHESIS & TESTIMONIALS

Conscious Energy, The Fallen Angel Model, and the Catholic Church by Joe Provenzano, Dcn. Ron Morgan, and Dan Provenzano (January 2022)

“A proposed connection between an event described by science and an ancient revelation.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, director of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology

“This book has to do with how the creation of the universe came about and where evil came from. This treatise is the most unique and original idea I’ve seen in theology in 50 years.” – Thomas P. Sheahen, former director of the Institute for the Theological Encounter with Science and Technology

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

The Philosopher — Joe P. Provenzano has an M.S. in Physics and is the author of Conscious Energy (previously published as The Philosophy of Conscious Energy) and How to Believe in God and Science — In Three Easy Steps.

joepro@proandsons.com

The Deacon — Ron D. Morgan is a deacon in the Catholic Church and is a lifelong follower and student of physics.

rondmorgan@gmail.com

The Scientist — Dan R. Provenzano has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Dan works with lasers and fiber optic sensors.

danpro3@gmail.com

Joe and Ron are retired and live near Dallas, Texas. They have been brothers-in-law for over fifty years and have been developing the ideas and insights in this book for almost that long. Dan is the son of Joe and his wife, Linda. He is currently an Optical Scientist working in Blacksburg, Virginia. Dan is married with three children and has been involved with these ideas all his life. He wrote the ProWave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics when he was in graduate school in the late 1990’s.

OTHER ACADEMIC BOOKS

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

Discovering the Fullness of Reality by Dr. David J. Keys

Discovering the Fullness of Reality by Dr. David J. Keys

David Keys reading from his book at Catholic Gifts and Books at 13397 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield, MO 63017. See https://catholicgiftsandbooks.com/

Discovering the Fullness of Reality: How Partial Truths Obscure the Union of Faith and Science

by Dr. David J. Keys

“Is there a transcendent element to Human Life?” In pursuit of an answer, Keys presents to the reader both things of the world which exist, affirming the teachings of science, and things of this world that apparently defy such teaching. Because, by definition, truth cannot deny another truth, Keys shows that in the end contradicting truths can both be true, but true in the sense they both accurately address only a subset of reality.  It is when one considers the FULLNESS OF REALITY that apparent contradictions can be reconciled to one another.  It is in this way that science and faith, which many say do not mix, can be demonstrated to NOT oppose one another; rather, they complement each other.

Hardback $24.95 | Paperback $19.95 | Kindle $9.99

Watch now the September 18, 2021, webinar hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology with Catholic author, Dr. David Keys, on his book Discovering the Fullness of Reality: How Partial Truths Obscure the Union of Faith and Science. This presentation is copyrighted by Dr. David Keys. All Rights Reserved. 

TESTIMONIALS

“Dr. Keys has made the case beyond any reasonable doubt that God (or someone) somehow designed and guided the evolution of our universe to produce life and consciousness.” – Joe Provenzano, co-author with Ron Morgan and Dan Provenzano of The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

“Dr. David Keys leads the reader through a process of discovery of the Fullness of Reality, which is also the Fullness of Truth, and that is none other than a Person, namely Jesus Christ.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Dr. Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism: A Framework for the Refutation of Atheism and the Evangelization of Atheists

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Dr. David Keys received a Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 1984 and a Masters in Theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio in 2013. For 38 years he worked in the field of Medical Physics, being involved in the physics of radiation treatment of cancer patients and in the physics of diagnostic imaging of patients and was named a Fellow by the American College of Radiology, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the American College of Medical Physics. Dr. Keys retired from Medical Physics in 2012, and has since then, published a book—Exploring the Belief in the Real Presence, has been on EWTN, Immaculate Heart Radio, and Covenant radio networks and has delivered numerous talks on a variety of topics, including Faith and Science, the Shroud of Turin, and the Tilma of St. Juan Diego. In June, 2021, Dr. Keys was named Catholic Man of the Year in the St Louis Archdiocese by Lu Cortese’s St Joe Radio/SJENT.

OTHER ACADEMIC BOOKS

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

The Guest of Night by Lucy Underwood-Healy

The Guest of Night by Lucy Underwood-Healy

The Guest of Night

Three teenagers are drawn into the hidden underside of Elizabethan England: a world where how you pray can get you hanged, and misplaced trust can kill.  Catholicism is forbidden in this world, and Catholics walk the line between faith and fear. Protestant Stephen distrusts treacherous Papists but values his friendship with Catholic Hugh; Hugh and Bridget resent Protestant tyranny but find themselves relying on Stephen’s help – and his silence.  All of them understand both less and more than their parents realize of the dangers hovering on the margins of their lives.  And this is the kind of volatile mix that can put nooses round necks.

Paperback: $19.95 / £14.59 | Kindle: $9.99 

For all episodes of Dust, Documents and Diamonds, click here

TESTIMONIALS

“So few historical novels actually manage to capture the feel of an age. . . . Three things that really lift this book up: One, the writing: sharp, lively, tight, it draws you in and zips along. Two, the historical detail: the author is a professional historian and it shows – in a good way. … And three, what will stay with me the longest: the really vividly conjured sense of what it was actually like to live under a regime of religious persecution. The Catholic characters at the heart of the book, and also the Protestant characters recalling earlier ages’ persecutions (a minor but crucial theme of the book), give you a truly compelling sense of living against a background of fear, of endlessly making choices that will probably be safe but could always be lethal, of the fragile consolations people reach for to tell themselves that everything will be all right when they are well aware that it might not be. And yet finding a way of actually living despite it all. It’s haunting but also, in the end, unmistakably hopeful – and that really is a tough trick to pull off.” – excerpt from Good Reads review by Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and a licensed lay preacher in the Church of England; author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt

The Guest of Night is a thrilling tale filled with adrenaline, courage, and lessons in wisdom.  Read by the author herself, one is transported into Elizabethan England. Lucy Underwood-Healy’s narration is expressive, and draws the listener further into the story, to sympathize and admire all that our Catholic ancestors suffered for the sake of Christ, of truth, and of love.” -Thérèse Judeana, author of Ransom: Shadow of An Empire

“The book that took me by surprise was this belting Tudor thriller / rite of passage story . . . [The Guest of Night].” – Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Children’s Laureate and Carnegie Medal (2004)

“Lucy Underwood Healy writes with impressive lucidity and authenticity. From the very beginning of The Guest of Night, we are immersed in a world of dangerous intrigue, rich historical detail and acute observation. She has created a cast of full-blooded characters whose story will absorb and engage us.” – Nick Warburton, Winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award, the Sandford St Martin Award and the Tinniswood Award

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lucy Underwood-Healy grew up in Cambridge, England.  She received her BA in History and English from Oxford University, and completed postgraduate studies at Cambridge University.  The Guest of Night, her first novel, grew in symbiosis with her research into Elizabethan England and its religious conflicts.  A mother and scholar as well as a writer, she lives in St Albans, England with her husband and children.

OTHER YOUNG ADULT FICTION

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

How to Listen & How to Speak by Dr. Peter Redpath

How to Listen & How to Speak by Dr. Peter Redpath

How to Listen & How to Speak: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants to Renew Commonsense and Uncommonsense Wisdom in the Contemporary World

by Dr. Peter Redpath

While the subject of this monograph is chiefly human communication in the form of listening and speaking, it examines this subject as a chief means to enable contemporary readers to come into contact with common and uncommon commonsense wisdom of past intellectual giants. It does so for the chief goal of fostering world peace by enabling readers to enrich their own lives and that of others by acquiring some of this wisdom and putting it to use on a daily basis.

Paperback: $24.95 | Kindle: $9.99

The full version of this talk entitled “Modern Media Bias and the Lost Liberal Arts of Listening and Speaking” was given at the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology on June 19, 2020, at a webinar entitled “Media Bias: The Manipulation of Faith, Science & Technology” available online at https://faithscience.org/media-bias/

ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE AUTHOR

“I wish to thank my colleagues at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Prof. dr. hab. Piotr Jaroszyński and Prof. dr. hab. Imelda Chłodna-Błach for inviting, and assisting, me to give the prestigious 2021 Jacek Woroniecki Memorial Lectures. In so doing, with the help of the students participating, they enabled me analogously to compare and articulate the historical, cultural, and civilizational magnitude of these Lectures and my current monograph to that of the celebrated ‘Father of Modern Philosophy’ René Descartes first presenting his work, Meditations on First Philosophy, to ‘The Most Wise and Illustrious The Dean and Doctors of the Sacred Faculty of Theology in Paris’ at the University of Paris in 1641. They did so, particularly, by allowing me, for a first time publicly, in detail, at a prestigious international university, to show how the contents of this book and these Lectures contain the main philosophical, psychological, and social science remedy to counteract the widespread cultural and civilizational damage that, unwittingly on his part, Descartes’s misunderstanding of the nature of philosophy—especially of the human person, metaphysics, wisdom, prudence, and common sense—unleashed on future generations of human beings in the West and globally.” – Dr. Peter Redpath

REVIEWS

David Ross, New Oxford Review (June 2022). To read, click here

TESTIMONIALS

“Revisiting Mortimer J. Adler’s classic book How to Speak. How to Listen, Redpath transcends the work with penetrating historical, psychological, and philosophical insights with wit and humor on why the arts of listening and speaking are essential for the pursuit of common sense—the first principle of understanding— and commonsense wisdom in promoting world peace. College students to global leaders will benefit immensely from the collaborative efforts of these two commonsense intellectual giants!” – Marvin B. Daniel Peláez is the founder of The Boethian Renewal and Co-Director of the Aquinas School of Leadership School of Economics. He is also a Supervisory Economist for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter A. Redpath (retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University, New York) is author, editor, co-editor of 22 books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, since 1980 he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. Among his many accomplishments, he is CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC; former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA); an Affiliate Scholar with the University Abat Oliba Graduate program (Barcelona, Spain). Peter is also co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelican Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler); former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for the Dutch publisher Editions Rodopi, B.V., and special series editor for Rodopi and Brill/Rodopi. Presently, he is a member of the editorial board of Brill Publishing’s Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series, a member of the Advisory Board of the Lyceum Institute, and Officer in Charge of Medieval Christian Philosophy and Academic Liaison to the Holy See for Global Scholarly Publications. For a list of articles published on the Catholic World Report, see http://www.catholicworldreport.com/author/redpath-peter/

OTHER CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY BOOKS

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

The Two Main Sources of Marie de l’Incarnation’s Prayer by Fr. Michel Legault, MSA

The Two Main Sources of Marie de l’Incarnation’s Prayer by Fr. Michel Legault, MSA

The Two Main Sources of Marie de l’Incarnation’s Prayer

by Fr. Michel Legault, MSA

On October 28, 1999, the Catholic Church celebrated the 400th anniversary of the birth of Marie Guyard, known now as Saint Marie de l’Incarnation (canonized 3 April 2014 at the Apostolic Palace by Pope Francis), “The Teresa of the New World.” I wish this simple research on Marie de l’Incarnation’s prayer (conducted in 1999) to be considered as an act of admiration and gratitude to God the Father who made this humble woman a luminous witness of His love in the beginning of the Church in North America.

At the present time, the New Age is searching for new ways of knowledge to reach God. Why does one search in esoterism for the path to God? Marie Guyard, even when she was seven years old, already knew the path to God the Father: this path for her was Jesus whom she met in the Church, who spoke to her in the Scripture, who united her to himself in the Eucharist, and who taught her the divine mysteries through the action of the Holy Spirit.

What were the lines of force of Marie Guyard’s prayer? How did she nourish it while working for her brother-in law on the docks of Tours as well as teaching Algonquin and French girls in the early years of Quebec City? What are the pillars of her contemplative and apostolic life? It is to answer those questions that I chose to reflect on the foundations of Marie de l’Incarnation’s prayer. With what spiritual food did she feed her prayer and her intimate union with God?

After having read her letters and some commentaries on her spirituality, Fr. Legault underlines two important sources: first, the Word of God, speaking in Holy Scripture. Second, the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, that Jesus entrusted to his Church to give the life of grace and which are celebrated in the sacred Liturgy, the prayer of the Church. From these two sources – Holy Scripture and Liturgy – he shows how they influenced Marie de l’Incarnation’s spiritual life and are the sources of each Christian’s life of prayer.

Paperback: $7.99 | Kindle: $5.99

 

TESTIMONIALS

“Fr. Legault in this book beautifully teaches us how the words and prayers of St. Marie of the Incarnation can enhance our own contemporary life and bring us to greater union with God.” – Dr. Ronda Chervin author of A Widow’s Walk and Treasury of Women Saints.  

“Fr. Michel Legault has written an inspirational book on how the Word of God, coming to us through Sacred Scripture and the Holy Eucharist, informed Marie de l’Incarnation’s spiritual life. I recommend this book as spiritual reading that undoubtedly will enrich one’s life.” – Very Rev. Peter S. Kucer, MSA, author of Catholic Church History: Pre-Christian to Modern Times

 

RELATED ARTICLES

MATHIEU BOCK-CÔTÉ, “Il était une fois Marie de l’Incarnation” (27 mai 2021) Journal Montreal. Pour lire, cliquez ici.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Michel Legault, MSA, has served on the faculty of Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT, as a Professor of Philosophy.

OTHER CATHOLIC SPIRITUALITY BOOKS

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.