“Man’s world is mediated by meaning and motivated by values. But meaning can be so debased and values so disregarded that that world collapses and there follows the experience of nothingness. It is out of this depth of alienation that Michael Novak, an articulate and incisive thinker, would proceed to ethical renewal and social reconstruction.”

Bernard J. F. Lonergan
The Gregorian University

“I was moved by this book-not only by its honesty, but by the way hat honesty vibrates with tenderness. Here theology and philosophy are not treated in the style of the autopsy. Novak knows that the struggle for faith hurts.”

Krister Stendahl
The Harvard Divinity School

“Michael Novak is a truly creative thinker at a time when American religious thought is dominated by fads. . . . His book bears rare fruit for the contemporary student of man”

The Nation