Book Publications of the Very Rev. Peter S. Kucer, MSA

Book Publications of the Very Rev. Peter S. Kucer, MSA

Very Rev. Peter S. Kucer’s Book Publications

This is a collection of books that approach reality from a distinctly Christocentric, Catholic perspective through different lenses: faith and morals, history, and Scripture.

Faith and Morals

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Eastern and Western Civilizations and the History of the Church

Sacred Scripture - Old Testament

Very Rev. Peter Samuel Kucer, MSA, STD is President-Rector at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT. He received degrees from Middlebury College, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, the Dominican House of Studies, and the Catholic University of America. He is intent on putting his educational background at the service of the New Evangelization promoted by the recent popes.

The Works of Francis Etheredge

The Works of Francis Etheredge

Francis Etheredge’s Publications

What makes a writer? Writing. But about what? What matters. And so while I came out of a multi-talented family, which was well read, artistic, academic and practical, it was not automatic that I would be a writer; indeed, my first thoughts were very varied, including many failed attempts to find a course or a skill that I wanted to pursue, even abandoning early attempts at writing, all of which died or dwindled to nothing and were overtaken, year in year out, by the wearying search for an identity which, in the end, was the Christian identity of being a child of God, a sinner and loved by a redeeming love which made it possible for me to marry and found a family. Over many years of writing essays, for a variety of courses, the words of a one-time director of studies came home to me: that I was not the best student but that I had something to say and that, to put it simply, a book is a collection of essays. So, over the years, that search that is God searching for His lost sheep, those unanswered questions concerning the moment of our first beginning to exist, what constitutes an adequate account of the wholeness of human personhood, drawing on the culture of a country to see what it can contribute to welcoming life, that widening awareness of being married, a parent and all the facets of a Christian family life, pilgrimages, prayers and the society in which our young people grow up – has led to a body of work which, while relatively late in life, draws on that mixture of life experience, learning, the help of others, the word of God and the life of the Catholic Church, all of which in the providence of God is drawn upon.

Coming to the Catholic Faith is not an abstract process but arises out of the reality of living

Bioethics is rooted in the human person, not as an isolated being but as a being-in-relationship

The deeper we go into individual questions of life and love the more we encounter the mystery of God

Mr. Francis Etheredge is married with eight children, plus three in heaven.

Francis is currently a freelance writer and speaker and his “Posts” on LinkedIn can be viewed here. Poetry; short articles; autobiographical blog; excerpts from books; and “Philosophize: A Ten Minute Write.”

See Francis’ other books, too, entitled Scripture: A Unique Word, From Truth and truth: Volume I-Faithful Reason, From Truth and truth: Volume II: Faith and Reason in Dialogue, From Truth and truth: Volume III: Faith is Married Reason.

He has earned a BA Div (Hons), MA in Catholic Theology, PGC in Biblical Studies, PGC in Higher Education, and an MA in Marriage and Family (Distinction).

Enjoy these additional articles by Francis Etheredge:

Gerard Verschuuren’s Publications with En Route

Gerard Verschuuren’s Publications with En Route

Gerard Verschuuren’s Publications

Our Catholic beliefs have come more and more under attack. Sometimes, it is a matter of simple misunderstanding, sometimes of confusing misinformation, sometimes of vicious misrepresentation. Whatever the reason is, it damages and harms what makes the Catholic faith so precious and worthwhile. In all his books, Dr. Gerard Verschuuren tries to highlight this from different angles and perspectives – ranging from science to philosophy to history. The Catholic faith is more than just a “faith.” It also and necessarily requires reasoning and thinking. I hope that my books help you with that, as they confirm the beliefs Christians have always held. It is a perpetual confrontation with the Father of Lies, through the harmony of faith and reason.

Gerard M. Verschuuren is a human geneticist who also earned a doctorate in the philosophy of science. He studied and worked at universities in Europe and the United States. Currently semi-retired, he spends most of his time as a writer, speaker, and consultant on the interface of science and religion, faith and reason.

Currently, while semi-retired, he writes about issues at the interface of

  • science and religion,
  • science and creation,
  • faith and reason.

All his books can be found at: www.where-do-we-come-from.com

Mysteries: Quantum and Theological by Robert Kurland

Mysteries: Quantum and Theological by Robert Kurland

Mysteries: Quantum and Theological

by Robert J. Kurland

This book endeavors to engage the reader in a qualitative understanding of physics basic to quantum mechanics (QM — wave motion, momentum, work, and energy) by walking the reader through how the field developed historically by scientists Planck, Einstein, DeBroglie, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Schwinger, Feynman, and Bell. The reader will come to appreciate the strangeness of basic QM concepts (superposition, the EPR paradox, entanglement, and measurement selection) and be able to view intersections of QM with theology (superposition and the Trinity, entanglement and Divine Action, many worlds/minds and Free Will, quantum logic and Resurrection).

Nook: $9.99

eBOOK
The 'Just Right' Anthropic Coincidences of Our Goldilocks Universe: Part III

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist who converted to Catholicism in 1995. He is a Graduate of Caltech (BS, with honor, 1951), Harvard (M.S. 1953, Physics; Ph.D. 1956, Chemical Physics), academic career, Carnegie-Mellon, SUNY/AB, MRI (Geisinger), best scientific work: search Kurland-McGarvey equation. He also served as a volunteer to federal prison and hospital; lector, EOMHC, and is a sometime player of bass clarinet, alto clarinet, clarinet, bass, tenor bowed psaltery for parish instrumental group and local folk group. He has been married 54 years and has 5 children, 11 grandchildren (eldest to graduate from Penn State Schreyer’s Honor College (grandfathers are allowed to brag!). For the story of his conversion, click here. For other blog posts about his faith as a convert from Judaism and a scientist, see here, here and here. His current effort is to show that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith. Intermittent blogs and adult education classes to achieve this end are available at http://rationalcatholic.blogspot.com/ and http://home.ptd.net/~rkurland)

Bob’s motivation comes from St. Augustine of Hippo, who wrote in The Trinity, 1.8:

It is also necessary may God grant it that in providing others with books to read I myself should make progress, and that in trying to answer their questions I myself should find what I am seeking. Therefore at the command of God our Lord and with his help, I have undertaken not so much to discourse with authority on matters known to me as to know them better by discoursing devoutly of them.

OTHER FAITH AND SCIENCE BOOKS

Theology in Music by Kenneth Francis

Theology in Music by Kenneth Francis

Theology in Music: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Songs by Kenneth Francis Kenneth Francis deconstructs the hidden grammar in classic popular songs theologically marinated in existential narratives, featuring idolatry, sin, love, pathos and meaning. And what...

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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...

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Science Under the Microscope: A Philosophical Investigation

Science Under the Microscope: A Philosophical Investigation

Science Under the Microscope: A Philosophical Investigation by Gerard Verschuuren Every culture has its own sacred cows. In our culture, that sacred cow is science. What scientists claim—in the name of science and with the authority of science—is oracular. This book...

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Mysteries: Quantum and Theological by Robert Kurland

Mysteries: Quantum and Theological by Robert Kurland

Mysteries: Quantum and Theological by Robert J. Kurland This book endeavors to engage the reader in a qualitative understanding of physics basic to quantum mechanics (QM -- wave motion, momentum, work, and energy) by walking the reader through how the field developed...

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Signs of Resurrection by Roger Skrenes

Signs of Resurrection by Roger Skrenes

Signs of Resurrection by Roger Skrenes This book is written to show that in our world there are many signs of resurrection. Life beyond death is demonstrated or modeled in many ways within the world around us. This fact should teach us to believe that our death is not...

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A Science Primer for the Faithful

A Science Primer for the Faithful

A Science Primer for the Faithful by Robert J. Kurland A Science Primer for the Faithful is a book that explains how science developed, demonstrating how the "truths" of science change as new data appears and new theories arise to explain that data. Unlike the truths...

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A Beautiful Mind and Soul by Dr. Gerard Verschuuren

A Beautiful Mind and Soul by Dr. Gerard Verschuuren

A Beautiful Mind and Soul by Gerard Verschuuren How can a Catholic scientist speak about "a beautiful mind and soul"? Dr. Gerard Verschuuren does so as a Catholic who knows that science has nothing to say about mind and soul, but also that science has nothing to say...

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Everywhen

Everywhen

"The eternal now of God is definitely the underpinning of the Eucharist and your theory in Everywhen – absolutely correct." - from a personal email to Dr. Thomas Sheahen from Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJEverywhen: God, Symmetry, and Time by Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen Have you...

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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...

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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...

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New Paths to God and the Soul by Roger Skrenes

New Paths to God and the Soul by Roger Skrenes

New Paths to God and the Soul by Roger Skrenes Much of what we receive through media of social communications does not concern itself with either God or the soul. So it is up to each of us to make ourselves aware of the pathways to God and the evidence for the...

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The Eclipse of God: Is Religion on the Way Out?

The Eclipse of God: Is Religion on the Way Out?

The Eclipse of God: Is Religion on the Way Out? by Gerard Verschuuren This book was specifically written for all those who feel lost in a world dominated by ideologies that obscure God. It is hard to pinpoint one particular cause of how we feel in such Godforsaken...

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Research Strategies Workshop for Students

Research Strategies Workshop for Students

Advanced Research Skills Workshop for Graduate Students

Presented by William Badke
William Badke is Associate Librarian for
Information Literacy and Associated Canadian
Theological Schools at Trinity Western
University, Langley, BC, Canada.

The book Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, 7th Edition, should be purchased as a supplement to this series. Click here to order your copy today.

Developing Student Researchers - The Faculty Role

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN FROM THIS WORKSHOP

  • Understanding seminary academic literature in the world of information
  • Research design as key to efficient and effective research
  • Search strategies – keywords and controlled vocabularies
  • Working with found resources
  • Keys to effective research writing

REGISTER FOR EITHER:

Zoom links and recorded sessions will be forwarded to all registered students.

  • Personal enrichment. Textbook purchase highly recommended.
  • Certification from the Catholic Distance Learning Network – limited to the first 25 registrants with a pre-requisite completion of ENG890/891. Textbook purchase required for assignments.
Advanced Research Skills Workshop - Session 1
Advanced Research Skills Workshop - Session 2
Advanced Research Skills Workshop - Session 3
Advanced Research Skills Workshop - Session 4

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

​William Badke is Associate Librarian for Information Literacy and Associated Canadian Theological Schools at Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, Canada. He has taught research processes to thousands of students for more than 35 years. His extensive publications show that he does research rather than just teaching it.

Teaching Research Processes Workshop for Faculty

Teaching Research Processes Workshop for Faculty

TEACHING RESEARCH PROCESSES WORKSHOP FOR FACULTY

Presented by William Badke
William Badke is Associate Librarian for
Information Literacy and Associated Canadian
Theological Schools at Trinity Western
University, Langley, BC, Canada.

Developing Student Researchers - The Faculty Role

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN FROM THIS WORKSHOP

  • Discover your role in helping your students to become more skillful researchers
  • Learn how to integrate research more effectively into your class structure and assignments
  • Learn more ways to invite students into your own discipline

REGISTER FOR EITHER:

  • Professional enrichment
  • A Certification from the Catholic Distance Learning Network–assignments for each of the six modules will be provided
Teaching Research Processes - Session 1
Teaching Research Processes - Session 2
Teaching Research Processes - Session 3
Teaching Research Processes - Session 4

Teaching Research Processes - Session 5
Teaching Research Processes - Session 6

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

​William Badke is Associate Librarian for Information Literacy and Associated Canadian Theological Schools at Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, Canada. He has taught research processes to thousands of students for almost 40 years. His extensive publications show that he does research rather than just teaching it.