"The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during……" — David Novak
"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, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms."
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55 Quotes by David Novak
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common:…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…
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More Argumentation Quotes
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I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation,…
— Christina Rossetti
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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its…
— Al-Ghazali
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will…
— Socrates
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
— Richard Rorty
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My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less…
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible,…
— Kenny Smith
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Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works.…
— Peter Adamson
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In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test,…
— Criss Jami
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[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of…
— Francis Bacon
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Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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