{"product_id":"the-unknown-god","title":"The Unknown God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Alfred Noyes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Unknown God\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the odyssey of Alfred Noyes from the impoverishment of doubt and error to the magnificence of faith and truth. Abandoning his childhood Protestantism for agnosticism, Noyes still adhered to a tenuous notion of a “Supreme Being.” Through the pages of the reigning rationalist writers of his time, he pursued an answer to that question of God’s existence. Yet the bare result was the mere acknowledgement of a great “Unknown” anchoring the system. At last, after much searching and suffering, did he find in the profuse light of the Catholic faith the “key to the riddle” and the “resolution to the discord.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs I was passing along and noticing the objects of your worship, I found also an altar bearing the inscription, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eto the unknown god.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat therefore you worship in ignorance, that I proclaim to you. \u003c\/i\u003e(Acts 17:23)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern man, Noyes argues, needs some “fundamental belief with which [he] can confront, on equal terms, the vast universe opened up to them by modern science, and feel, as other ages felt, the throb of a definite purpose in human life.” Offering the Catholic faith to this need with clarity of vision and humility of spirit, \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown God\u003c\/i\u003e remains richly deserving of its accolades as “the spiritual biography of a generation” and a “weighty critique of modern agnosticism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Noyes\u003c\/b\u003e (1880–1958) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist, and a convert to Catholicism. Alongside \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown God\u003c\/i\u003e, the poem “The Highwayman,” the epic verse trilogy \u003ci\u003eWatchers of the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, and the science-fiction novel \u003ci\u003eThe Last Man\u003c\/i\u003e endure as testaments to his prodigious and versatile literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1952826924","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42861788004446,"sku":"978-1952826924","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/2929\/1614\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--523.jpg?v=1780986916","url":"https:\/\/nez-emporium.com\/products\/the-unknown-god","provider":"Nez Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}