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A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions About God

By: Michael and jana Novak

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A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions About God

By: Michael and jana Novak

Theologian Michael Novak responds to the skeptical questions of his twentysomething daughter Jana.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671018868

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Washington's God

Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

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Washington's God

Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

Washington has long been viewed as the patron saint of secular government, but in Washington's God , Michael Novak and his daughter, Jana, reveal that it was Washington's strong faith in divine Providence that gave meaning and force to his monumental life. Narrowly escaping a British trap during the Battle of Brooklyn, Washington didn't credit his survival to courage or tactical expertise; he blamed himself for marching his men into certain doom and marveled at the Providence that delivered them. Throughout his career, Washington held fast to the conviction that America's liberty was dependent on our faithfulness to God's will and our trust in Providence. Washington's God , shows Washington not only as a man of resource, strength, and virtue, but also as a man with deeply held religious values. This new presentation of Washington-as a man whose religion guided his governance-will bring him into today's debates about the role of faith in government and will challenge everything we thought we knew about the inner life of the father of our country.

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322

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Basic Books

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0786722169

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9780786722167

On Cultivating Liberty

Reflections on Moral Ecology

By: Michael Novak

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On Cultivating Liberty

Reflections on Moral Ecology

By: Michael Novak

On Cultivating Liberty brings together Novak's essays on moral ecology: the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of a free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American Founding, and includes a series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures ranging from Jacques Maritain to St. Thomas Aquinas. Along with a biographical essay and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, On Cultivating Liberty is indispensable for anyone concerned about the future of democracy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847694054

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Three in One

Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000

By: Michael Novak

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Three in One

Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976-2000

By: Michael Novak

Throughout his many writings, Michael Novak, one of the leading Catholic social theorists of our times, has urged us to adopt a tripartite system of democratic capitalism including a market economy, a democratic polity, and a moral-cultural system that would nourish the values and virtues on which free societies depend. Three in One introduces the reader to Novak's portrait of democratic capitalism.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742511715

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Endowed by Our Creator

The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

By: Michael I. Meyerson

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Endowed by Our Creator

The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

By: Michael I. Meyerson

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned religious freedom and how they intended it to operate in the new republic. Endowed by Our Creator shows that the framers understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion could instill virtue and help to unify a diverse nation. They created a spiritual public vocabulary, one that could communicate to all—including agnostics and atheists—that they were valued members of the political community. Through their writings and their decisions, the framers affirmed that respect for religious differences is a fundamental American value, Meyerson concludes. Now it is for us to determine whether religion will be used to alienate and divide or to inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.

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Yale University Press

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0300183496

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9780300183498

Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove

An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)

By: Michael Novak

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Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove

An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)

By: Michael Novak

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self, inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimes deliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladly accept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th e liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412817552

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Politics and Religion in the United States

By: Michael Corbett,Julia Corbett-Hemeyer,J. Matthew Wilson

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Politics and Religion in the United States

By: Michael Corbett,Julia Corbett-Hemeyer,J. Matthew Wilson

There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social movements and ongoing political life. This book seeks to illuminate for readers the dynamics underlying this seeming paradox, and to examine how the various religious groups in America have approached and continue to approach the tensions between sacred and secular. This much-anticipated revision brings Corbett and Corbett’s classic text fully up to date. The second edition continues with a thorough discussion of historical origins of religion in political life, constitutional matters, public opinion, and the most relevant groups, all while taking theology seriously. Revisions include fully updating all the public opinion data, fuller incorporation of voting behavior among different religious and demographic groups, enhanced discussion of minority religions such as Mormonism and Islam, and new examples throughout.

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Routledge

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1136159991

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In God We Trust

George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America

By: Michael Shea

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In God We Trust

George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America

By: Michael Shea

This book is a unique look into God's hand in American history, viewed through the life of George Washington. The book reflects the providential view that Washington and other Founding Fathers had of the God of history (God of Abraham). The book attempts to document God's hand in Washington's life and the Revolutionary War using Washington's own words and detailing the numerous micarcles that led to the country's eventual independence and subsequent constitution. The book also explores the country's reason for existence, God's purpose in the founding of the United States, and what it portends for our future survival as a nation.

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Michael Shea

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0985128704

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The American Miracle

Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic

By: Michael Medved

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The American Miracle

Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic

By: Michael Medved

Bestselling author and radio host Michael Medved recounts some of the most significant events in America’s rise to prosperity and power, from the writing of the Constitution to the Civil War. He reveals a record of improbabilities and amazements that demonstrate what the Founders always believed: that events unfolded according to a master plan, with destiny playing an unmistakable role in lifting the nation to greatness. Among the stirring, illogical episodes described here: • A band of desperate religious refugees find themselves blown hopelessly off course, only to be deposited at the one spot on a wild continent best suited for their survival • George Washington’s beaten army, surrounded by a ruthless foe and on the verge of annihilation, manages an impossible escape due to a freakish change in the weather • A famous conqueror known for seizing territory, frustrated by a slave rebellion and a frozen harbor, impulsively hands Thomas Jefferson a tract of land that doubles the size of the United States • A weary soldier picks up three cigars left behind in an open field and notices the stogies have been wrapped in a handwritten description of the enemy’s secret battle plans—a revelation that gives Lincoln the supernatural sign he’s awaited in order to free the slaves When millions worry over the nation losing its way, Medved’s sweeping narrative, bursting with dramatic events and lively portraits of unforgettable, occasionally little-known characters, affirms America as “fortune’s favorite,” shaped by a distinctive destiny from our beginnings to the present day.

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Forum Books

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0553447289

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9780553447286

Tell Me Why

A Young Woman Questions Her Father about God

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

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Tell Me Why

A Young Woman Questions Her Father about God

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

For anyone exploring a spiritual life for the first time, and those brought up in a faith without ever really understanding why, this volume provides a chance to eavesdrop on a conversation between a believing father and his questioning daughter.

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Lion Books

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0745944280

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Washington's God

Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

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Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By: Michael Novak,Jana Novak

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No One Sees God

The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

By: Michael Novak

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No One Sees God

The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers

By: Michael Novak

Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand the purpose of life and the meaning of suffering, Michael Novak finds the reality of spiritual life far different from the rhetorical war presented by bestselling atheists and the defenders of the faith who oppose them. In No One Sees God, 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. Ultimately, No One Sees God offers believers and unbelievers the opportunity to find common ground by acknowledging the complicated reality of the human struggle with doubt. Novak provides a stirring defense of the Christian worldview, while sidestepping the shrill tone that so often characterizes the discussion of faith, and given the challenges faced in the present age, all who value liberty will find hope in his new way of conversing.

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Tell Me Why

Tell Me Why

Washington's God

Washington's God

On Cultivating Liberty

On Cultivating Liberty

Three in One

Three in One

Endowed by Our Creator

Endowed by Our Creator

Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove

Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove

Politics and Religion in the United States

Politics and Religion in the United States

In God We Trust

In God We Trust

The American Miracle

The American Miracle

Tell Me Why

Tell Me Why

Washington's God

Washington's God

No One Sees God

No One Sees God

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