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"Michael Novak, a firm theist, takes on a formidable host of clever atheists in one absorbing encounter after another. Novak holds his ground throughout without a trace of contentiousness—and with a depth of learning that should move believers, doubters, and unbelievers alike. The arguments are fascinating. The company is delightful. I have never seen the subject treated with such sympathy, urbanity, and generosity of spirit."

-- Christina Hoff Sommers (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute)

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“No One Sees God is an outstanding theological discussion that bravely responds to the recent challenges of those who wish to deny God’s existence. Michael Novak wrestles with theology in a serious and inspiring way. Whereas recent pro-Atheist literature can often be characterized as immature, intellectually dishonest, and blatantly ignorant, Novak’s brings an open-minded, sophisticated, and highly educated voice to the discussion. The Mishnah teaches that one must know “how to respond to a heretic.” Novak’s wisdom will surely serve as a strong defense to many who seek a scholar to help them wrestle with the 13% of the people in the world who still deny God.”

-- Shmuel Herzfeld (Rabbi, Ohev Sholom—The National Synagogue)

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“No One Sees God is a lightning flash of illumination about our post-secular age-proving, as everything that Michael Novak writes does, that faith and reason can work together. Engaging on the highest level (and with intellectual charity) with today's “new atheist” writers, and showing what they've missed or misunderstood about religion, Novak has written a book for the ages that anyone interested in the big questions, believer or unbeliever, will profit from.”  

-- Brian C. Anderson (Editor, City Journal)

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“American Presidents like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln knew a lot about 'the darkness' in which God dwells, and the trust that is necessary when one's eyes cannot see Him. This new book by Michael Novak is one of the most fascinating reflections on the God known through reason that I have ever encountered, the God whom we trust in shadow and in light, in defeat as well as in victory. Many, many readers will recognize in these pages elements of their own experience.”

-- Newt Gingrich (Former Speaker of the House, and author of Rediscovering God in America)

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"Intensely personal and yet intellectually wide-ranging, this book shows Michael Novak at his best. No One Sees God conveys a depth, erudition, generosity of spirit, and wisdom that simply transcend anything that the new atheists have to offer."

-- Dinesh D'Souza, author of What's So Great About Christianity

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"The word 'dialogical' might have been invented to describe Michael Novak. With great patience and lucidity he engages believers, unbelievers, and those who don't know what they believe in a conversation about the things that matter most."

-- Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-chief of First Things

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“Why should you read Michael Novak? Let me illustrate with a personal example. Novak is a devout and faithful Catholic--and reading one of his earlier books helped put me on the path to embracing Protestant Christianity. This is the sort of thing that happens when you read a writer of Novak’s brilliance and intellectual honesty--you find yourself asking better questions, and you end up in unexpected places. His new book is especially helpful, coming as it does in a time when shallow triumphalisms dominate religious discourse--in the puerile vilifications of religion by the “New Atheists,” as well as the tired, chest-thumping apologetics of too many who write in the name of Christianity. No One Sees God is the work of a man of faith and a genuine humanist, who calls us all to discuss these ultimate questions in a manner truly worthy of our nature as human persons.”

-- Michael Potemra, Literary Editor, National Review

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"Some have tried to defeat the new atheists with an equally dogmatic new fundamentalism. There is neither truth nor kindness in this approach. Finally, Michael Novak has written from his mind and his heart a rejoinder to the materialists among us. He succeeds where others have failed by honestly appreciating their critique of simple minded faith, while also clearly demonstrating their insufficient response to the mystery of God. Only Michael Novak could have written this book because of the scope of his intellect, the depth of his faith, and his deep humility that is his greatest gift to us all."

-- Rabbi Marc Gellman, Ph.D., Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth Tora, Melville, NY

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“[No One Sees God] is a deeply insightful book that is destined to become a classic! Michael Novak addresses the spiritual questions that human beings have asked through the ages, regardless of their religious persuasion. The answers he provides are thought provoking and carefully reasoned, and may forever change your view about God’s role in the cosmos and man’s place in it. One thing is for certain: the dialogue will be reverberating in your mind long after you have put the book down.”

-- Gordon Green, American Enterprise Institute, Formerly U.S. Census Bureau

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“This is a beautiful and deeply enlightening book.”

-- David Gelernter, Department of Computer Science, Yale University

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"Michael Novak's new book counts as both significant and moving. He deploys logic and love, emotion and erudition, to address the most enduring questions of our existence."

-- Michael Medved, Nationally Syndicated Talk Radio Host, Author of Right Turns

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“I found the book to be on the whole EXCELLENT. In many passages wonderful, lyrical, brilliant, deep.”

-- Professor Stephen Barr, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware

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“No One Sees God, the latest contribution of Michael Novak to secular theology is, as all his previous works, a very persuasive book. All believers in freedom, whether Catholics or non-believers, have an enormous debt of gratitude to Michael. He has shed light on very important and complex issues and has done so from the perspective of those who consider liberty as the fundamental organizing principle of an open society."

-- Antonio Martino, member of the Italian Parliament and former Italian Minister of Defense (2001 to 2006). In January 2005, the U.S. Secretary of Defense awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Public Service, an honor seldom granted to non-Americans.

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"Over the years, Michael Novak has explored with great insight the relationship between religion, society, and the individual. Here he engages with the recent intellectual challenges to religion and provides the perspective of a profound believer who knows what it is like to wrestle with doubt."

-- Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Einstein: His Life and Universe

 

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No One Sees God (Doubleday)

Recent writings by atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others have offered an ideal occasion for Michael Novak to return to his deepest philosophical passion: Providing a reasoned answer to questions and challenges about God.

Novak begins with experiences of suffering and meaninglessness. (His own brother was murdered in 1964, senselessly and brutally, in religious riots in Asia.) He then moves on to direct, sometimes line-by-line argument with "the new atheists" -- not to refute them, but to share their darkness regarding God. In a spirit of comradeship, he moves step by step toward (what he has found to be) a fuller way to think of suffering and sin, prayer and trust in God.

The present age, Novak writes, is too serious for the literature of contempt which atheists, ever since the Enlightenment, have directed at believers, and which believers have aimed at atheists. This is an age of mortal danger, in which all those committed to liberty, believers and atheists alike, must learn a new way of conversing. This way requires the generous offer of mutual respect, one to the other.

The End of the Secular Age may have arrived -- the End of that Age in which the whole world was supposed to be going secular. Novak's book presages a new Age of Reasoned Conversation, in which both unbelievers and believers frankly recognize each other's dignity, in the common darkness that is their daily lot.

Michael Novak received the 1994 Templeton Prize, an award that has also gone to such world-famous and notable figures as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mother Teresa, and Charles Taylor. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford, held academic chairs at Syracuse University and Notre Dame, and now holds the Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. His wife, Karen is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

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