David Novak Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.”

“Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.”

“The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.”

“One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.”

“Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.”

“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.”

“Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.”

“The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.”

“A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.”

“A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.”