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David Novak
American Theologian
Born: 1941
Christian Christians Community God Jews People
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. David Novak
Immoral Only Wrong Just Deception Deceptive Whether Coercion Coercive Violent
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. David Novak
Moral Morality Implications Always Theology
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. David Novak
God Community Says Structures Voice How Hears Which
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. David Novak
Live Although Without Branches Cannot Roots
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction. David Novak
Rights Seriously Conviction Jews Our Willingly Must Status Take Attendant Mission Knowingly Accept Question Duties Confirm Either Happily Who Reject
The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership. David Novak
Leadership State Recognition John Could Vatican Without Occurred Israel Paul
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. David Novak
Bible Old Interpretation Christianity Moral Above Implementation Judaism Testament Traditions Affirmation Common Hebrew Old Testament Teaching United
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. David Novak
Man Guidance Community Synagogue Moral General More His Preacher Offer Often Rabbi Regular Theological Sermons Whose
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. David Novak
Political Jews Emerged Most Around Opposed Modern Turn Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Orthodox
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home. David Novak
Home Jews Back Brought Marvel Hospitality Primordial Occasions How Traditional Personally Many Jew
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity. David Novak
God Natural People World Living Members Individual Individual Human He Instead New Identity Calling Israel Historical Did Human Human Beings Formed Them Create Created Natural World Beings Even Chose
God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body. David Novak
God Soul Live More Both Sake Than Us Body Functions Chose
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. David Novak
Black Black Hole Directly Taken Look Up Itself Hole Swallowed Holocaust
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic. David Novak
God World Language Way Torah Must Logic Given Understand Understood Same Human Then Us Human Language
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise. David Novak
Truth Change Truth Is Synthesis Out Some Compromise Various Between Sort Does Opinions How Arrived Cultural Worked
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences. David Novak
Positive Relationship Differences Jews Would Between Fully Christians
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism. David Novak
Positive Respect Christian Jews Studied Judaism Concern Practicing Teachers Who Including Whom Jew
Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked. David Novak
Naked Jews Neither Pluralistic Both Partisan Nor Square Want Which Public Us Many Christians
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy. David Novak
Enemy Political Perception Jews Purely Fact Arises Between Built Discourse Common Common Enemy Largely Christians
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication. David Novak
Thought Every Think Related Some Implication Practical Talmud Questions Discussed Either Literature Act Theoretical Prescribed
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. David Novak
Freedom Political Jews Liberal Religious Religious Freedom Idea Most Accepted Catholics Level
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter. David Novak
Death Daily Important Year Synagogue Recite Reciting Parent Part Anniversary Most Important Part Tradition His Mourning Deceased The Most Important Children Process Which Then Regularly Thereafter Her Jewish
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair. David Novak
First Own Christian Punished Responsible Seem Rather Only Sin Doctrine Does Inevitably His Sins Person Human Mean Original Even Each Pair Original Sin Her Humans Copy
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. David Novak
Truth God People World Torah Ourselves Given Call Known Greatest Revelation Tradition Been Itself Elected Means Choose Chosen Why Presents Jewish
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. David Novak
State Constant Religious Development Renewed Traditions
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone. David Novak
Alone Own Sense My Own Instead Most Practical Am Which Autonomy Means Creator Fundamental Foundational Core
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