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Theological Quotes by David Novak
- 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…
- The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
- 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…
- I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
- 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…
- Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.
- The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation,…
- Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many…
More Theological Quotes
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies… — Tony Campolo
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about… — Jim Cymbala
- [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the… — N. T. Wright
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell
- Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is… — Ronald Knox
- Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot
- Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks
- For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche