biography
| name: |
Novak, Michael (John)
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pronunciation:
[nohvak]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Lay Roman Catholic theologian, economist, and political philosopher, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the Holy Cross Seminary at the University of Notre Dame, MA, and the Gregorian University in Rome, but left the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1960 soon after his ordination to the priesthood, and was accepted into Harvard on a graduate fellowship later that year. He later taught at Stanford University (1965–8), the State University of New York (1968–73), and other schools. He wrote many books on Catholicism, identity, and spiritual growth, and became an increasingly more prominent and outspoken conservative critic of contemporary trends in American society. His books include The Open Church (1964), The Experience of Nothingness (1970), The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (1972), and The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In Choosing Our King (1974) he proposed that there should be two presidents of the USA, one with the power, another with the ceremonial role. In 1981 he was appointed US ambassador for the UN Human Rights Commission. He received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1994. |
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