It has been my privilege to have written a number of testimonials for Dr. Boland’s books. One was a general testimonial for his 12-Volume Series on Saint Thomas Aquinas: “I truly believe as time passes this unique series will be more and more sought after by those who want a really good education in the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas and much more besides.”
Dr. Boland’s work has not stopped with the completion of his 12-Volume Series. He has begun an Assertions and Refutations series. This new series is intended to concentrate the philosophical principles of St. Thomas, explained and developed in depth in the first series, upon a wide field of philosophical subjects, both speculative and practical, in a series or critiques of modern-day Catholic authors. A number of books have already been published in this new series.
To help readers navigate both the 12-Volume series and the growing corpus of critiques in the new series, Dr. Boland has provided a concise overview of both series in the current book Teenager Science and the Curse of the Creative Imagination.
Furthermore, and most importantly, he has accurately assessed the main intellectual obstacle – the mindset of Scientism deriving from Newton (all pervasive in education today) – that arrests and confounds human understanding at an inferior level and prevents it comprehending the philosophical principles of St. Thomas, pointedly in natural philosophy, metaphysics, logic and ethics, and thereby reaching maturity – or what should be its normal everyday working level.
This deleterious situation is artificially prolonged at all levels of Catholic education and in all areas of Catholic life by the continued disregard (especially by bishops) for the long and persistent insistence of Popes on the need to pay the utmost attention to St. Thomas, especially in metaphysics.
Dr. Boland’s excellent and very readable book is something of a primer to the two series noted above, and is a necessary refutation of some basic errors hidden under the guise of modern science; a science very much in need of St. Thomas’s philosophical guidance and correction.
–Frank Calneggia, author of Assertions and Refutations: An Assessment of Dr Tracey Rowland’s Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism and editor of Analysing the Errors and Exposing the Real Agenda of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.: The Selected Works of Frits Albers, Vol. 1
