Sentences with phrase «of jewish»

Although they differ radically from one another and appear in widely varied contexts, in two regards these early prophets testify to a prophetic continuum from premonarchic times (and even from the age of Moses) to the decay and collapse of monarchy in Israel and on into the days of Jewish reconstruction.

(Israel and the World, «The Two Foci of the Jewish Soul,» p. 31 f. Cf. ibid., «Imitatio Dei,» p. 76 f.; For the Sake of Heaven, p. 46.)

The eschatology of Jewish apocalyptic and of Gnosticism has been emancipated from its accompanying mythology, in so far as the age of salvation has already dawned for the believer and the life of the future has become a present reality.

In Thailand I realized that I confronted a confusing history of Jewish, Greek, Latin, American, Thai and Japanese ways of thinking.

First, the astonishing continuing centrality of the Jewish people in world history right down to the present day is a confirmation of the bible story: they are indeed God's chosen people and they continue at the heart of history.

Established a few years earlier by Bruno Hussar, a Dominican monk of Jewish origin, Isaiah House was intended to be a center for Christian — Jewish dialogue, a much - needed sanctuary for Israeli converts to Catholicism, and a retreat for Christian contemplation of the «mystery of Israel.»

Dubois's pious genius had sought to satisfy the old missionary impulse through a new kind of Jewish — Christian dialogue.

It would furtherrequire the rejection of two thousand years of Jewish and Christian history since at no time has homosexual intercourse been proposed to or found acceptance among the People of God.

which I can see has been flattened out in evangelical thought very much, in contrast to the role of a Jewish Judge - to set things right again (not like our courtrooms...).

I recall a great Reform rabbi once thundering a sermon in defense of Jewish theism to his congregation at its centennial.

I think that Jesus did frequently disobey some of the Jewish traditions that were related to the law, but not the actual Law of God itself.

«We were reading and discussing certain Hebrew scriptures,» he says, «and one of the Jewish participants in our group suddenly broke down and told us how painful it was to hear the way Christians were interpreting «his» texts.

One can choose Jesus, Buddah, Mohammed, or any one of the Jewish prophets as their «teacher».

His annual public lectures, one in commemoration of his father and another a «repentance homily» delivered in the week preceding Yom Kippur, were intricately crafted, four - hour affairs with audiences upwards of one thousand, and served for several decades as cornerstones of the Jewish intellectual calendar.

The New Jerusalem, however, poses a problem: for, though it can certainly be seen as evidence for Chesterton's Zionism and for his appreciation of the «mystical as well as mysterious» dimension of the Jewish heritage, it also contains passages which explain why Gopnik perceives Chesterton's agreement with the Zionist's perception that «we are aliens here» in a sinister light.

Fellowship — Among Jesus» closest disciples was the first century equivalent of a Jewish right - winger (Matthew, the tax collector) as well as the first century equivalent of a radical Jewish leftist (Peter, the zealot).

Between 1945 and 1948 it unleashed a campaign of terror which involved assassinations, the bombing of theatres and, following the birth of Israel, the dynamiting of Jewish businesses.

«Portrait of Wally,» painted by Austrian Egon Schiele in 1912, was put on display Thursday at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

How will our understanding of the Word of God survive, if the fleshly, tangible heart of Jewish and Christian faith is obliterated?

SR began over 20 years ago when Ochs and a group of Jewish scholars, including Robert Gibbs, Laurie Zoloth and Steve Kepnes, grew frustrated about the gap between scripture study and modem scholarship.

And within all of these branches, matters of Jewish law and obligation are often debated.

«We see that SR is beginning to work outside of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths — with Hindus and Buddhists who are text - based, for example,» says Ochs.

In addition to his Talmudic studies and his eight volumes of lectures, all in Hebrew, R. Lichtenstein's thinking is represented in the two volumes called Leaves of Faith and Varieties of Jewish Experience.

I have always thought that this was part of Jewish rubrics, but Pitre highlights its much greater significance.

Dubois's theology of Jewish existence was, most fundamentally, a sincere but failed attempt to adapt the missionary impulse to twentieth - century conditions.

Chant began as part of the Jewish tradition, in which Christ and his apostles were raised.

I, p. 40) Whether this passage is a reflection of Jesus» words (Matthew 5:45) or Jesus» words a reflection of similar teachings in the Judaism of his day, it is a true intimation of the growing universality of the better sort of Jewish teaching, and especially in praying the outreach of intercession to all humanity was perceived by some as the corollary of monotheism --

Egypt holds a special place for Coptic Christians because, according to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus» family fled there shortly after his birth to escape King Herod, who was calling for the execution of all Jewish boys under the age of 2.

Now it was natural that the first Christian evangelists should proclaim Jesus against the background of Jewish thought and in the context of what they conceived to be God's historical manner of dealing with his people Israel.

Paul was a religious man, a proud Pharisee, who was proud of his Jewish background, proud in the membership of the people of God.

In addition to smuggling food in and people out of the Jewish ghetto, Jan sabotaged trains, built bombs and even poisoned the pork raised in the zoo, which was shipped to Nazi troops.

The Temple was the ancient site of Jewish sacrifice.

While they contain the best of the higher thoughts and longings of the Jewish people, they also contain much that is far from being representative of the character and teachings of the Father in heaven; wherefore must I choose from among the better teachings those truths which are to be gleaned for the gospel of the kingdom.

Klenicki effectively presents Jewish dissatisfactions with the document, Dulles places the document into the historical context of Jewish - Catholic relations, and Cassidy provides an insider's view of how the document came about.

Despite its grandiose «sounding name, the WJC, founded in 1936, can not be termed a representative body of the Jewish people.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

controversial separdic jews meet with ahmedinejad and call for the dismantiling of the jewish state of talmudic jews.

At the heart of Jewish faith is the belief that God, the creator the world and the Lord of History, rescued the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt and entered into a covenant with them at Sinai.

A special set was brought by the high priest on Yom Kippur to expiate the sins of the Jewish people.

The main thrust of his new book, and its most powerful and original feature, consists of a series of highly specific charges about the greed and rapacity of Jewish organizations seeking compensation for victims of the Holocaust, especially the WJC.

Last fall, under pressure from French advocacy group Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), Twitter agreed to remove some offensive tweets.

I don't think this is how it really happened, but the point of the story is that no Jewish person would ever expect a non-Jewish person to obey or observe all of the Jewish laws, either the 613 of the Torah, or the 6000 + laws of the Oral Torah.

On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Princeton, 152 pages, $ 24.95 Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish thought at both New York and Hebrew Universities, writes books with very large theses.

Norman Finkelstein's targets include revered figures of the Jewish world such as Elie Wiesel, influential Jewish groups such as the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and, most of all, the State of Israel and its vocal supporters.

So seeing as how my project corresponded serendipitously with the end of the Jewish year, I could think of no better way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than by making Ahava's challah.

Both were great centres of Jewish scholarship.

He said that after witnessing the mass murder of Jewish civilians in the Ukrainian town of Dubno, he heard his mother's voice, saying, «And Fritz, what would you do?»

Your God of Abraham comes from stories from the Sumerian religion which was well before the creation of the Jewish religion.

The Colloquium is a group of Jewish and Christian theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and scholars that meets periodically to consider questions of morality, religion, and public life.

I think you forgot the multiple crusades, the salem witch trials, the constant degredation of the jewish by the christians and catholics up until right after WW2 and the holocaust, or not even mentioning the iron hand of the church during the ENTIRE dark ages, the complacency and silent approval of Hitler by the RCC, the fact that Hitler himself grew up a catholic and professed to be doing the will of god.