NO ONE SEES GOD - AUDIOBOOK

Subtitle: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

Author: Michael Novak, read by the author. Unabridged. 10 CDs / 12 hours (approx.)

Michael Novak's latest work approaches the reality of spiritual engagement in today’s challenging world. He engages the thought of prominent contemporary atheists Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. He engages nonbelievers in dialogue through an extended and practical exchange with the Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald, recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement.

He describes the struggle to know ourselves and to participate in the life of this world as it plays out for believers and non-believers. Lastly, he defends the Christian worldview by revealing the flaws of secularism. As Novak states in the Epilogue to this volume, “The main thesis of this book is that atheists and believers in God can and should open civil, reasoned conversations about questions important to each. Who really are we? What may we hope? How ought we to live?”

In this book, Michael Novak brilliantly recasts the tired debate pitting faith against reason. Both the atheist and the believer experience the same "dark night" in which God's presence seems absent, he argues, and the conflict between faith and doubt stems not from objective differences, but from divergent attitudes toward the unknown. Drawing from his lifelong passion for philosophy and his personal struggles with belief, he shows that, far from being irrational, the spiritual perspective actually provides the most satisfying answers to the eternal questions of meaning. Faith is a challenge at times, but it nonetheless offers the only fully coherent response to the human experience.

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