Foundations for Universal Certitudes: A Catholic Philosopher Defends Metaphysical First Principles that Firmly Support Traditional Aristotelian-Thomistic Sciences by Dennis Bonnette

Foundations for Universal Certitudes: A Catholic Philosopher Defends Metaphysical First Principles that Firmly Support Traditional Aristotelian-Thomistic Sciences by Dennis Bonnette

Foundations for Universal Certitudes: A Catholic Philosopher Defends Metaphysical First Principles that Firmly Support Traditional Aristotelian-Thomistic Sciences

by Dennis Bonnette, Ph.D.

Foundations for Universal Certitudes demonstrates the apodictic certainty of some metaphysical first principles which apply to all things and which can be used as the basis for demonstrating a much larger body of absolute truths.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Well-trained in Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics, Bonnette is able to apply calm and rational responses to those who raise questions about the existence of God, the freedom of the will, the essential difference between humans and animals, and the possibility of miracles.” – Dr. Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI

“Dr. Dennis Bonnette’s work has had a very large impact — everything he writes gets noticed — no doubt due to his unwavering commitment to orthodoxy. Rational Responses to Skepticism is a true contribution to Catholic thought.” – Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Dennis Bonnette retired as a Full Professor of Philosophy in 2003 from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He taught philosophy there for thirty-six years and served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department from 1992 to 2002. He lives in Youngstown, New York, with his wife, Lois. They have seven adult children and twenty-five grandchildren. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. Dr. Bonnette taught philosophy at the college level for 40 years and has taught free courses at the Aquinas School of Philosophy in Lewiston, New York. He is the author of two books, Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence (The Hague: Martinus-Nijhoff, 1972) and Origin of the Human Species (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, third edition, 2014), and many scholarly articles.

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Revealed Mysteries Rationally Defended: A Catholic Philosopher Explains and Defends Several Central Revealed Truths by Dennis Bonnette

Revealed Mysteries Rationally Defended: A Catholic Philosopher Explains and Defends Several Central Revealed Truths by Dennis Bonnette

Revealed Mysteries Rationally Defended: A Catholic Philosopher Explains and Defends Several Central Revealed Truths

by Dennis Bonnette, Ph.D.

Revealed Mysteries Rationally Defended addresses the metaphysics of miracles and the manner in which supernatural grace perfects our natural world.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Well-trained in Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics, Bonnette is able to apply calm and rational responses to those who raise questions about the existence of God, the freedom of the will, the essential difference between humans and animals, and the possibility of miracles.” – Dr. Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI

“Dr. Dennis Bonnette’s work has had a very large impact — everything he writes gets noticed — no doubt due to his unwavering commitment to orthodoxy. Rational Responses to Skepticism is a true contribution to Catholic thought.” – Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Dennis Bonnette retired as a Full Professor of Philosophy in 2003 from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He taught philosophy there for thirty-six years and served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department from 1992 to 2002. He lives in Youngstown, New York, with his wife, Lois. They have seven adult children and twenty-five grandchildren. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. Dr. Bonnette taught philosophy at the college level for 40 years and has taught free courses at the Aquinas School of Philosophy in Lewiston, New York. He is the author of two books, Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence (The Hague: Martinus-Nijhoff, 1972) and Origin of the Human Species (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, third edition, 2014), and many scholarly articles.

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God’s Nature and Relation to Creatures: A Catholic Philosopher Explains Divine Attributes, Problem of Evil, and Natural Law Ethics

God’s Nature and Relation to Creatures: A Catholic Philosopher Explains Divine Attributes, Problem of Evil, and Natural Law Ethics

God’s Nature and Relation to Creatures: A Catholic Philosopher Explains Divine Attributes, Problem of Evil, and Natural Law Ethics

by Dennis Bonnette, Ph.D.

God’s Nature and Relation to Creatures aims primarily at helping readers understand that the nature and attributes of the God of classical theism are both intelligible and coherent.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Well-trained in Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics, Bonnette is able to apply calm and rational responses to those who raise questions about the existence of God, the freedom of the will, the essential difference between humans and animals, and the possibility of miracles.” – Dr. Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI

“Dr. Dennis Bonnette’s work has had a very large impact — everything he writes gets noticed — no doubt due to his unwavering commitment to orthodoxy. Rational Responses to Skepticism is a true contribution to Catholic thought.” – Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Dennis Bonnette retired as a Full Professor of Philosophy in 2003 from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He taught philosophy there for thirty-six years and served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department from 1992 to 2002. He lives in Youngstown, New York, with his wife, Lois. They have seven adult children and twenty-five grandchildren. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. Dr. Bonnette taught philosophy at the college level for 40 years and has taught free courses at the Aquinas School of Philosophy in Lewiston, New York. He is the author of two books, Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence (The Hague: Martinus-Nijhoff, 1972) and Origin of the Human Species (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, third edition, 2014), and many scholarly articles.

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Atheistic Materialism’s Unseen Errors: A Catholic Philosopher Exposes Naturalism’s Incoherent Worldview by Dennis Bonnette

Atheistic Materialism’s Unseen Errors: A Catholic Philosopher Exposes Naturalism’s Incoherent Worldview by Dennis Bonnette

Atheistic Materialism’s Unseen Errors: A Catholic Philosopher Exposes Naturalism’s Incoherent Worldview

by Dennis Bonnette, Ph.D.

Atheistic Materialism’s Unseen Errors, written in purely rational terms of how reality actually is constituted in ways that materialism fails to grasp, shows many of the fundamental errors found in the widespread worldview known as scientific or atheistic materialism, a philosophical perspective that claims that nothing but physical things exist. 

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TESTIMONIALS

“Well-trained in Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics, Bonnette is able to apply calm and rational responses to those who raise questions about the existence of God, the freedom of the will, the essential difference between humans and animals, and the possibility of miracles.” – Dr. Robert Fastiggi, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI

“Dr. Dennis Bonnette’s work has had a very large impact — everything he writes gets noticed — no doubt due to his unwavering commitment to orthodoxy. Rational Responses to Skepticism is a true contribution to Catholic thought.” – Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Dennis Bonnette retired as a Full Professor of Philosophy in 2003 from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He taught philosophy there for thirty-six years and served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department from 1992 to 2002. He lives in Youngstown, New York, with his wife, Lois. They have seven adult children and twenty-five grandchildren. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. Dr. Bonnette taught philosophy at the college level for 40 years and has taught free courses at the Aquinas School of Philosophy in Lewiston, New York. He is the author of two books, Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence (The Hague: Martinus-Nijhoff, 1972) and Origin of the Human Species (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, third edition, 2014), and many scholarly articles.

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Center Camaraderie by Angelyn Spignesi Kopylec Arden

Center Camaraderie by Angelyn Spignesi Kopylec Arden

Center Camaraderie

by Angelyn Spignesi Kopylec Arden

In the first part of this book, Angelyn Spignesi Kopylec Arden, Ph.D., Psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Holy Apostles College and Seminary, summarizes, extends, and reflects upon psychological-philosophical-theological findings in her previous eleven books. The second part of this book is a novella that she began before and wrote during the time that she wrote the essay; her poems, play, stories, and novellas have been the source and result of her study of the unconscious for decades.
 
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REVIEW

“Center Camaraderie specially belongs to a psychological genre that includes Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900/1953) and Jung’s The Red Book (1930/2009).  Like those of Augustine and Dante, these works address a journey from being lost (confronting the unconscious) to being found (insight into the unconscious, healing)…

 

This review cannot encapsulate the Essay, which is a treasury of insights into psychodynamics… I have learned how to look at my own life anew now that I have become aware in a new way of the importance of circuits in experience, leading from past to present to future, from traumas and symptoms and all the ways that preoccupation with myself prevented me from seeing the working of the Holy Spirit in metaxy. It is that kind of book.

 

Psychotherapists and counselors who find much of the theorizing in psychology wanting – and not only in its lack of sensitivity to spiritual and religious themes, but also in its lack of reflection on how a therapist must be present in the counseling hour – will benefit from this book, with its weave of theological, philosophical, and psychological reflections, especially in the ways that therapist and client speak about themselves and the worlds they inhabit.

 

This book is not a philosophical or a theological treatise, although it draws upon those disciplines. It addresses the soul in suffering and healing. Because it grounds itself in the unconscious, in the ‘creative imagination’ (Arden, 2023, p. 39), it keeps us attuned to the reality that we do not know ourselves…”

 

Robert Kugelmann, University of Dallas, excerpt from his book review in the December 2025 issue of Integratus: The Journal of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. To read the full review, click here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Angelyn Arden holds a doctorate in cognitive psychology from the University of New Hampshire and did postdoctoral work in depth psychology, literature, and phenomenology.  She has written books and articles on the interface of these areas.  She had a depth psychology practice for 25+ years.  She recently retired from Holy Apostles College and Seminary where she has the title Professor Emeritus, and where, since 2006, she taught courses in literature and psychology to undergraduates and Human Formation to seminarians and sisters.

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