Sentences with phrase «jewish intellectual tradition»

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Especially encouraging is the renewed Christian urgency in reappropriating the Jewish shape of Christianity and the emergence of a new generation of Jewish intellectual leadership prepared to argue for a culture firmly secured by the Judeo - Christian tradition.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

An utterly fascinating ramble through the constituting stories of Jewish and Christian tradition, combining solid scholarship and intellectual liveliness with a winsome style that makes the book a delight for both the specialist and the general reader.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

Through algebra and art, critical thinking and composition, technology and Jewish studies, students are enlightened, informed, and forge an identity rooted in traditions of intellectual integrity, devotion to others, and innovation.

It has a dedication to Jewish artists as Jews, as well as to the intellectual traditions and the sense of difference that helped create Modernism.