David Novak
David Novak
David Novakis a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law. He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and has also trained with Catholic moral theologians. Since 1997 he has taught religion and philosophy at the University of Toronto; his areas of interest are Jewish theology, ethics and biomedical ethics, political theoryand Jewish-Christian relations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
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Our view is that she wasn't hearing what our point was and it wasn't being conveyed to people who are.
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Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.
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For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
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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.
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Humility is going to be critically important for him. It's going to be horrendous. It's going to be excruciating for him.
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I absolutely agree that it is horrendously wrong and she should have known better.
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Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.
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Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
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At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.
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If not this case, then when is a death sentence appropriate? How many people have to die?
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In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have to believe something quite similar about the Jews.
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The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.