If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and... →
David Novak
The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human... →
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... →
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within... →
God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves... →
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people... →
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male... →
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
Michael Novak