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" Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous. "

David Novak

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

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" Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process. "

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" All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation. "

" 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 requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people. "

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

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