“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“As a necessary preparation to the principal work of his book, Dr Boland discusses with clarity and in totality Aristotle’s long neglected and poorly understood causal lines of explanation of reality and the particular natural sciences ordered according to the degrees of formal abstraction from matter. Thereafter he gives a most thorough and hierarchically ordered exposition and discussion of the true philosophical science of human psychology, that is to say, as found in the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. This is the principal and most important part of his book. It fittingly culminates with a study of the human person and serves as a necessary foundation to the second part of Dr Boland’s book – the development of a truly Thomistic synthesis: incorporating the good to be found in modern psychology and rejecting what is nonsense and even dangerous and harmful. I cannot speak highly enough of this book – it is a privilege to endorse it. I believe it is destined to a have a most beneficial influence: not only in Catholic education; but in any institution of learning where truth is sought for its own sake, and for the sake of the intellectual and moral health of its students.” – Frank Calneggia, author of Assertions and Refutations: An Assessment of Dr Tracey Rowland’s Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism