David Novak

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body. ”

In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have to believe something quite similar about the Jews. ”

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone. ”

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 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. ”

A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences. ”

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community. ”

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 Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history. ”

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. ”

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. ”

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us. ”