Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged… — David Novak Copy Share Image
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences. — David Novak Copy Share Image
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly… — David Novak Copy Share
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews… — David Novak Copy Share
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. — David Novak Copy Share
In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not… — David Novak Copy Share
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak Copy Share
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition. — David Novak Copy Share
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign… — David Novak Copy Share
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. — David Novak Copy Share
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. — David Novak Copy Share
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to… — David Novak Copy Share
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. — David Novak Copy Share
In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians… — David Novak Copy Share
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of… — David Novak Copy Share
The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. — David Novak Copy Share
