Teenager Science and the Curse of the Creative Imagination: Preliminary Survey of Series on Works of St. Thomas Aquinas AND of second Series of Assessments & Refutations of Works of Modern Authors
by Dr. Donald G. Boland
This book highlights the stark contrast between science as understood by Aquinas (and Aristotle) and modern science since Newton. Yet, most remain unaware of this shift in meaning.
Despite attempts to reconcile these views, modern philosophers often dismiss metaphysics, reducing Aristotle’s logic to a pseudo-logic aligned with empirical science. Sadly, Catholic scholars, including clergy, have been drawn into this mindset due to secular education’s dominance.
The basic cause for Catholics is the neglect of Aquinas’s works, despite repeated calls from the Church to study them. Influenced by secular peers, some Catholic academics are pressed to apologize for subordinating science to Faith. Paradoxically, it is modern scientists generally who embrace a radical scepticism and deny there is any scientific certainty or indisputable scientific proof.
OTHER TITLES BY DONALD G. BOLAND
- Logic, Science, and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Natural Philosophy, Modern Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Science, Psychology and Saint Thomas Aquinas by Donald G. Boland | En Route Books and Media
- Ethics Today and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Natural Law – Australian Style | En Route Books and Media
- Political Science and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Economic Science and St. Thomas Aquinas: On Justice in the Distribution and Exchange of Wealth | En Route Books and Media
- The Social Encyclicals and Saint Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Metaphysics, Truth and St. Thomas Aquinas | En Route Books and Media
- Metaphysics/Ontology and St. Thomas Aquinas (Twenty Readings in Wisdom Forsaken) | En Route Books and Media
- Thomas of the Creator | En Route Books and Media
- The Thomist Tradition: Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis | En Route Books and Media
- Rev. Fr. Austin M. Woodbury, SM, PhD, STD and the Aquinas Academy (1945 – 1975) | En Route Books and Media
REVIEW BY FRANK CALNEGGIA
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
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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