February 27, 2009

Books

New Atheism, Old Apologetics

No One Sees GodThe Dark Night of Atheists and BelieversMichael NovakDoubleday, $23.95, 336 pp.

Lawrence S. Cunningham

Energized by the recent success of books by such vigorous atheists as Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris, Michael Novak returns to a theme he first wrote about decades ago in books such as Belief and Unbelief (1966) and Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove (1978). That theme is our human incapacity to understand completely who God is. Be (...)


 

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