Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand...
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Aug 21, 2011
John
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At the beginning of the book Novak dove right into a subject that is extremely interesting to me, about how no one sees God and about the dark night of the soul (which often last a life-time for some). He wrote about Mother Teresa and how most of her life she only felt God's absence, silence and cold shoulder. In Novak's view, this is the normal Christian life and what mature Christian should expect. Only immature Christians get to experience Christ intimately, experiencing his sweet nearness, e
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Sep 24, 2009
Rachel
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I found this book extremely interesting. I was sitting in a bookstore while Maddie was looking through the kids books and looked up and was intrigued by this book. It is written by a man who has obviously gone through a great spiritual discovery. (Went from Catholic priest to atheist to believer.) I thought what he had to share was wonderful and insightful. However, I must warn, it reads like a doctoral thesis in philosophy, so it can be very dense. Plus, some of his arguments are flawed. But I
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Jul 17, 2010
Mark
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Epistemology of the ineffable ?
Up to 3 stars: very thought provoking! ...but also just plain provoking as well. With much bad reasoning and rhetoric, this was neither the congenial nor compelling discussion it pretends, on it's cover and in the reviews of it's fervent adherents, to be. I found contradiction in Novak's off-handedly co-opting science and later mounting direct attacks on the same ideas. He glibly accepts (trumpets!) "laws [of physics:] all the way down" but pokes fun at "turtles al More...
Up to 3 stars: very thought provoking! ...but also just plain provoking as well. With much bad reasoning and rhetoric, this was neither the congenial nor compelling discussion it pretends, on it's cover and in the reviews of it's fervent adherents, to be. I found contradiction in Novak's off-handedly co-opting science and later mounting direct attacks on the same ideas. He glibly accepts (trumpets!) "laws [of physics:] all the way down" but pokes fun at "turtles al More...
Oct 14, 2008
Johnny
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"Even if no one yet possesses the truth, we must agree that the presentation of evidence through reasoned argument is the most reliable path for coming closer to the truth." This book is more for research than anything else. It's been a long time since I've actually had to think. I thank Novak for that. The key to this book is it not found in the Christianity section in the book store, as opposed to the Atheist section. It is Comparative Religion. I'd venture into the details of some
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