David Novak Professions : Theologian Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by David Novak As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home. David Novak how back hospitality home 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 of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity. David Novak identity god people world Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. David Novak personal like know identity 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. David Novak live body soul god The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. David Novak look up holocaust black Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them. David Novak than rather only accept Similar Authors Avery Dulles theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong theologian Andrew Linzey theologian Alister E. McGrath theologian Albert Schweitzer theologian Albert Barnes theologian All Authors