David Novak Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.”

“The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.”

“The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.”

“The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.”

“The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.”

“Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.”

“When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.”

“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.”

“In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.”

“It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.”