{"id":78,"date":"2008-11-05T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blogalogue\/2008\/11\/bio-michael-novak.html"},"modified":"2008-11-05T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:17:36","slug":"bio-michael-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blogalogue\/2008\/11\/bio-michael-novak.html","title":{"rendered":"Bio: Michael Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"novak2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/185\/import\/imgs\/novak2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nTheologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/\">American Enterprise Institute<\/a> in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span>He graduated from Stonehill College (B.A., Philosophy and English) and the Gregorian University (B.A. Theology).&nbsp; He continued theological studies at Catholic University and then at Harvard, where he received an M.A. in 1966 in History and the Philosophy of Religion.&nbsp; Mr. Novak has written 26 influential books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society.&nbsp; His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Bengali, Korean and Japanese.&nbsp; His masterpiece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirit-Democratic-Capitalism-Michael-Novak\/dp\/0819178233\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225925386&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism<\/i><\/a>, was published underground in Poland in 1984, and after 1989 in Czechoslovakia, Germany, China, Hungary, Bangladesh, Korea, and many times in Latin America.&nbsp; His latest book is&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-One-Sees-God-Believers\/dp\/0385526105\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225925813&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers<\/i><\/a>.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. 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