Best quotes by David Novak on Community
Checkout quotes by David Novak on Community
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‟ The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
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‟ All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.
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‟ Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.
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‟ 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.
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‟ The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
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‟ To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
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‟ 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.
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