A Christian Vision of Science and Technology in Teilhard de Chardin by Agustín Udías, S.J.

A Christian Vision of Science and Technology in Teilhard de Chardin by Agustín Udías, S.J.

A Christian Vision of Science and Technology in Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.

by Agustín Udías, S.J.

Science and technology today exert a great influence on human life, with science providing the vision of the universe and technology conditioning the progress of life in a globalized world. Teilhard de Chardin recognizes these functions of science and technology and attempts to give a Christian vision of them. He proposes that the worldview of science is not only compatible with the Christian faith, but that it should also help us to know God the Creator better. From another point of view, it is in this world known by science that God has become incarnate in Christ, and so scientific research becomes a form of worship. For Teilhard, the evolutionary vision of the world provided by science finds its end in Christ, so that cosmogenesis becomes a Christogenesis. Technology must also be seen within this dynamic process of the world as an important element of human evolution. This evolution will lead to the arrival of the Ultra-human and to the union of the world with the Christ-Omega. For Teilhard, thus, science and technology have a Christological dimension.

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“In three brief chapters, this little book presents us with a clear and uncluttered view of Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of the world: science and technology as part and parcel of the Christifying evolutionary process of the material world as it moves toward the final end of the Incarnational Mystery. Short, clean, and clear, it is a gift for those who wonder what Teilhard is up to.” – Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, OP, Emerita, Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Agustín Udías, born in Santander (Spain) in 1935, a Jesuit, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has held research and teaching posts at the University of California, Berkeley; Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main and Universidad de Barcelona. Among his books: with Julio Mezcua Fundamentos de geofísica (Alianza, 1997), Principles of Seismology (Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2018), Historia de la Física. De Arquímedes a Einstein (Síntesis, 2004), Ciencia y religion. Dos visiones del mundo (Sal Terrae, 2010), Jesuit Contribution to Science. A history (Springer, 2015) and Los Ejercicios Espirituales con Teilhard de Chardin (Mensajero, 2022). He has published scientific articles on the topics of earthquake source mechanism, seismicity and seismotectonics of the Mediterranean region, and about the relationship between science and religion, and the history of Jesuit scientists.

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Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies by Kenneth Francis

Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies by Kenneth Francis

Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies

by Kenneth Francis

Kenneth Francis reflects on deconstructing the narrative and on a more nuanced cinematic theology with Christian themes and subtle undertones on the spiritual dimensions in the subtext. He endeavors to analyze core messages in the psychology, symbolism, denotation, connotation, and metaphors in a short selection of film classics over the past 60-plus years and highlights the broader visual implications at play in semiotics in the moral universe which we inhabit infused with Existential, metaphorical timebombs. Such a universe contains love, hate, joy, jealousy, guilt, poverty, wealth, beauty, ugliness, truth, lies, justice/injustice, revenge, freedom, slavery, suffering, and much more, all in 24 frames per second.

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“A compelling read for our time as unsimulated sexual perversions and other such screen fetishes are entering into our mainstream cinematic experiences!” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kenneth Francis is a freelance journalist and Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor in various publications and print media, as well as a university professor in journalism. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth (St Pauls Publishing); The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple); and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux).

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Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald Boland

Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald Boland

Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas

by Dr. Donald G. Boland

This book is an attempt to rescue the reputations of Aristotle and Aquinas in the area of science and philosophy where they are subject to most criticism and even ridicule in modern times following the scientific revolution, namely, in Physics specially and Science generally.

It is necessary to note that objection to, and rejection of, their thought in this regard is not confined to scientists and philosophers of a non-religious or anti-religious cast of mind, but is also shared, if reluctantly, by those who would regard themselves as generally admirers of Aristotle as a theist philosopher, and even those who would declare themselves disciples of Aquinas in all other respects, going by the name of Thomists.

Most, including Thomists, would see the ancient and medieval notions of science, ascribed to Aristotle and Aquinas in this precise regard, as not able to be reconciled at all with modern thought, so that we might as well get used to the idea that the pre-modern notions of physics and science were seriously mistaken.

However, there are some Thomists, such as Maritain, who have endeavoured to argue for a solution to the apparent contradiction. The author, whilst prepared to defend the truth of Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ fundamental position and indeed to criticise the modern disdain for it, nonetheless disagrees also with the efforts of the Thomists to date to do the same.

Readers on both sides of the debate will be surprised to discover compatibility with the author’s arguments.

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  1. Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  2. Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  3. Science, Psychology and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland | En Route Books and Media
  4. Ethics Today and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  5. Natural Law – Australian Style | En Route Books and Media
  6. Political Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  7. Economic Science and St. Thomas Aquinas: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth | En Route Books and Media
  8. The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  9. Metaphysics, Truth and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  10. Metaphysics/Ontology and St. Thomas Aquinas (Twenty Readings in Wisdom Forsaken) | En Route Books and Media
  11. Thomas of the Creator | En Route Books and Media
  12. The Thomist Tradition: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis | En Route Books and Media

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“The first part of this book is devoted to the corpus of works of Aristotle on natural science (natural philosophy) and the extensive commentaries of St. Thomas Aquinas. It exposes and discusses the right ordering and principles or causes of the natural sciences in their completeness as handed down by these two great masters of natural philosophy. From that perspective alone Dr. Boland’s book is a much needed contribution to philosophical and scientific discourse in both secular and Catholic academic circles of our age. However, the book does not end in the mists of time with a medieval friar better known for sacred theology. The abundant light shining from the Common Doctor and The Philosopher in the first part of the book serves, in the capable hands of Dr. Boland, to illuminate with clarity and precision the true  nature of modern science from its inception in the seventeenth century until the present time. Despite the material benefits this limited and mathematically formal science has accrued to mankind, the philosophical errors therein are serious and extensive. These errors, especially the fundamental scepticism of modern philosophers of science such as Sir Karl Popper, are exposed and roundly refuted in the second part of the book. There is however, another bonus in store, which for modern day Thomists will be something of a shock. I speak here of the serious attempts well known and greatly admired Thomists such as Maritain, Charles De Koninck MSRC and William Wallace OP have made to engage with modern scientific theories from a Thomistic perspective, but in doing so, as Dr. Boland so astutely points up by applying the principles exposed in the first part of the book, they have departed from St. Thomas in a fundamental way. Overall, this book is an excellent foundation for the right understanding of the philosophy of nature in its entirety and for the identification of the errors of modern theories of science. Not only does it deserve a wide readership amongst teachers and students of philosophy, science and technology, but also amongst teachers and students of ethics, politics and theology. I give it my unreserved recommendation.”  — Frank Calneggia, author of Assertions and Refutations

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald G Boland Ll. B. (Sydney), Ph. D. (Angelicum) is a founding member of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc. in Sydney Australia and is one of its former Presidents. He practiced for a number of years as a lawyer having a degree in law from the University of Sydney. Over much the same time, having obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, he has taught philosophy and law in both Catholic and secular educational institutions, such as the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the Aquinas Academy, the Centre for Thomistic Studies Inc., now operating under the name of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc., and various Catholic seminaries, such as those of the Marists and the Vincentians. His doctoral thesis was on the concepts of utility and value in economics as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland

Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland

Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas

by Dr. Donald G. Boland

The primary aim in this book is to contrast the notions of logic in Aristotelian terms, including its use in Metaphysics, with the peculiar sense which it has taken in modern times, tied to a materialist and anti-metaphysical notion of science, not extending beyond the mathematico-empirical consideration of things. In pursuing this aim, Dr. Boland divides this book into two parts, outlining first Aristotle’s treatment and then the modern, with which we can associate what is called the “New Logic” and “New Mathematics”, coming into the forefront of modern thinking in the late nineteenth century.

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  1. Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  2. Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  3. Science, Psychology and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland | En Route Books and Media
  4. Ethics Today and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  5. Natural Law – Australian Style | En Route Books and Media
  6. Political Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  7. Economic Science and St. Thomas Aquinas: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth | En Route Books and Media
  8. The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  9. Metaphysics, Truth and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
  10. Metaphysics/Ontology and St. Thomas Aquinas (Twenty Readings in Wisdom Forsaken) | En Route Books and Media
  11. Thomas of the Creator | En Route Books and Media
  12. The Thomist Tradition: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis | En Route Books and Media

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“The first part of this book is an excellent exposition and explanation of the foundations of the metaphysical logic of Aristotle by way of the Commentaries of St Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle’s books devoted to Logic and on the De Trinitate of Boethius. This exposition and analysis, long over-due in modern day academia (including Catholic academia) is a most necessary foundation for the right study of Philosophy and for one’s personal growth in the science and art of right reasoning. The right foundation, having been solidly established, leads naturally into the topic of modern logics which occupies the second part of the book. The errors and pitfalls of modern logics (especially the mathematical logic of modern science), and their strictly limited sphere of rightful application, are exposed and discussed with great wisdom. The ethical nightmares and great evils that flow from the modern over-reach of this naturally truncated logic are made obvious for all to see. Dr Boland has taught Logic at university level for the better part of fifty years. This book might be called a condensation of his vast knowledge of the topic he deals with so clearly and astutely. He removes much of the difficulty of this subject by his frequent use of easy-to-understand practical examples. I would go so far as to say that it is the best book on logic that I have read. I wholeheartedly recommend it to teachers and students of philosophy, ethics, theology, science, and politics alike.”   – Frank Calneggia, author of Assertions and Refutations: An Assessment of Dr. Tracey Rowland’s Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald G Boland Ll. B. Ph. D. is a founding member of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc. in Sydney Australia and is one of its former Presidents. He practiced for a number of years as a lawyer having a degree in law from the University of Sydney. Over much the same time, having obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Rome, he has taught philosophy and law in both Catholic and secular educational institutions, such as the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the Aquinas Academy, the Centre for Thomistic Studies Inc., now operating under the name of the Centre for Catholic Studies Inc., and various Catholic seminaries, such as those of the Marists and the Vincentians. His doctoral thesis was on the concepts of utility and value in economics as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Brain, Soul, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Mystery: The Neurophysics of Consciousness, Free Will, Reasoning, and Synergistic Brain-Soul Interaction

Brain, Soul, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Mystery: The Neurophysics of Consciousness, Free Will, Reasoning, and Synergistic Brain-Soul Interaction

Brain, Soul, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Mystery: The Neurophysics of Consciousness, Free Will, Reasoning, and Synergistic Brain-Soul Interaction

by Terrence D. Lagerlund, MD, PhD

This book presents a discussion of the many facets of human consciousness and cognitive abilities from the standpoint of physics, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, computer science (including artificial intelligence), and theology. In particular, we argue that the human mind (unlike animal consciousness) cannot be fully explained only by physical phenomena and cannot be understood as arising merely from algorithmic processing carried out by the neural networks of the brain but requires a spiritual soul.

To solve the dilemma of dualism (that is, how can the spiritual soul influence the physical brain?), we provide a theory based on quantum mechanics of how the spiritual world can influence the physical world. This theory can explain how God can influence the physical world in order to accomplish his will (that is, Divine providence) without violating the laws of nature.  The theory can also explain how, through God’s mediation, the human soul can influence the physical systems of the brain without violating the laws of nature. The theory thus bridges the apparent chasm between the spiritual world and the physical world (the so-called “causal closure” of the physical world) and postulates that the soul and the brain are tightly integrated in their function, in keeping with the Judeo-Christian belief that “spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature” (Catechism of the Catholic Church).

The book concludes with a discussion of the purpose and meaning of human existence and how quantum mechanics is relevant to the theological doctrine of grace by showing how God can influence the moral decision-making that takes place in the frontal lobe of the brain without violating the laws of nature. This also helps to explain how Thomas Aquinas’ “intrinsically efficacious” grace, by which he explains the biblical doctrine of predestination, does not conflict with the doctrine of human free will.

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Dr. Terrence Lagerlund has been a neurologist in the Division of Epilepsy at Mayo Clinic for 35 years, treating patients with epilepsy and interpreting their electroencephalograms. He also lectures to residents and fellows on electroencephalography including basic principles of electricity and neurophysiology. He has published papers and authored book chapters on electroencephalography and epilepsy, particularly regarding quantitative analysis of electroencephalograms. Prior to becoming a neurologist, he obtained a Ph.D. in physics and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (doing research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN) and as a term physicist at Fermilab.

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Follow the Science: A Catholic Physician’s Contemplations on Faith, Medicine, and the Catholic Church

Follow the Science: A Catholic Physician’s Contemplations on Faith, Medicine, and the Catholic Church

Bishop James D. Conley, Diocese of Lincoln, and Dr. Jere Palazzolo, President, Catholic Healthcare International

Follow the Science: A Catholic Physician’s Contemplations on Faith, Medicine, and the Catholic Church

by Dr. George Mychaskiw II

with forewords by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and Charles C. Camosy, PhD


Do you ever wonder if the scientific world has lost its compass?

Does it seem like the Catholic Church is increasingly irrelevant in a culture of death and secular self-interest?

Is there no behavior too outrageous, offensive or preposterous enough for a civilized society to protest?

In this book, Dr. George Mychaskiw, a faithful Catholic, pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist takes an unvarnished, direct and unapologetically Catholic look at some of today’s most important bioethical and episcopal issues, including:

  • The common arguments supporting abortion on demand and why they are simply invalid.
  • The irrational and non-scientific basis for gender ideology.
  • The modern slavery of in vitro fertilization and surrogacy.
  • The contemporary genocide against the disabled, elderly and other “inconvenient” people.
  • Perversion of politics and the criminal justice system.
  • The silent and cowardly Catholic Church.

And many more.  This is a call to arms.  A plea and guidebook for taking back the culture of death, restoring respect for life and motherhood, and setting the Church in its place as the standard-bearer for ethical behavior.  Society is in decline and, unless prompt action is taken, it will collapse to a Hobbesian dystopia that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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“The forces of Satan are very clear in their priorities. Yearly, Planned Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. As ‘sons of light’ (Lk 16,8), we must be ready to make the sacrifices necessary to safeguard and promote human life and the family formed by the union of man and woman in marriage. Is there anything more important than life and the dignity of God’s creation of man, male and female? (Gn 1,27) For us Catholics, the answer is clear.” – Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke

“I believe this book will prove to be useful in a world where medicine, science and the Church are all battered by confusion and compromise that too often wants to deny the truth. The call for people of faith is not to deny the truth but instead to embrace the joys and the challenges it brings to our human journey.” – Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, from the foreword

“When you read this book, you will open yourself to the engaging vision of a thinker and practitioner who, unwilling to settle for the already challenging life of a first-rate and very busy clinician, decided to lead the charge in creating—from nothing—a brand new medical school on the border in New Mexico to serve populations who bear the face of Christ in a special way as strangers in our midst. When you read this book, you will open yourself to the engaging vision of a thinker and practitioner who understands the crusade for prenatal justice as the great fight for human and civil rights of our era. When you read this book, you will open yourself to the engaging vision of a thinker and practitioner who understands that a Catholic vision of the good, a Catholic vision of human dignity, and a Catholic vision of what health care is are at the heart of responding to the culture wars of our current moment.” – Charles C. Camosy, PhD, Professor of Medical Humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine, from the foreword

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. George Mychaskiw, is a board-certified, practicing pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist with over 30 years of experience, having completed medical school at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and anesthesiology residency and fellowships at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Mychaskiw has an extensive background in health policy and medical education and is a graduate of the AOA’s Health Policy Fellowship. 

As the visionary behind an osteopathic medical school being established in southern New Mexico to address the shortage of physicians in the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico and diversify the physician workforce, Dr. Mychaskiw initiated a compilation of influential leaders to make this vision a reality. In 2013, the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) was established with Founding Dean & Chief Academic Office Mychaskiw at the helm of the academic arm of the medical school.  In 2016, BCOM’s inaugural class of 162 arrived in Las Cruces, New Mexico to begin their dream of attending medical school.  Today, the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of the largest producers of Hispanic physicians in the US and one of the most diverse osteopathic medical colleges.

Dr. Mychaskiw and his consulting group have developed 9 other medical schools in the US and he is the Founding President of the proposed Saint Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering School of Osteopathic Medicine, which will be co-located on the campus of Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas.  The Saint Pio School will be the first and only medical school in the world adherent to Ex Corde Ecclesiae, traditionally Catholic, and will proudly stand for the life and dignity of every human life, from conception to natural death, as created in the image and likeness of God.

Dr. Mychaskiw remains in active clinical practice and has developed and led major university anesthesiology departments in the United States.  An authority in osteopathic medical education, Dr. Mychaskiw has authored over 100 articles and book chapters, including works on hospital, medical school and operating room management. He has given hundreds of lectures around the world and is an expert on medical and educational administration in the U.S. and developing world.

 

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