David Novak #1

David Novak (1941-) is a scholar of Jewish philosophy, law (Halakha) and ethics. He has Conservative rabbinical ordination and has trained with Catholic moral theologians. Trained at Georgetown University, Novak has taught at the University of Virginia and currently teaches at the University of Toronto.

Novak has contributed to Jewish ethics by advocating a Jewish social ethics drawn from both the natural law tradition and Halakha. To this end, he interprets the rabbinic approach to Noahide laws as a useful grounding for cross-cultural moral reasoning. He also writes extensively on Jewish-Christian relations. His expertise includes Maimonides, John Courtney Murray, and Paul Tillich.

His specific normative claims in Jewish ethics include a curious mix of what may be characterized as liberal and right-wing positions. An ordained rabbi, Novak had been affiliated with the Conservative movement in Judaism and then shifted to the Union for Traditional Judaism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Novak

People of the Covenant

by John T. Pawlikowski

Copyright (c) 1996 First Things (April 1996).

The Election of Israel: The Idea of the Chosen People
By David Novak
Cambridge University Press, 285 pages, $54.95

David Novak, deeply rooted as his writing always is in classical Jewish religious thought, here addresses the issue of religious identity in light of the challenge of modernity. While his sources and his response are quite specifically Jewish, his questions and his method of inquiry put before all believing people today fundamental issues of religious identity. Seeing this volume as the logical sequel to his earlier works The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism and Jewish–Christian Dialogue, Novak asks the fundamental question for the contemporary Jew who desires to live out in the world: What does it mean to be part of an “elected” or “chosen” people?

http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3845&var_recherche=wyschogrod

--> Michael Wyschogrod (the contemporary Orthodox Jewish philosopher who has reaffirmed Israel’s election as a central tenet in his book The Body of Faith: Judaism as Corporeal Election).

Edom #1

Jewish Christian Dialogue

Video of Dr. Nirenberg Morning Lecture
One God, Three Scriptures: Judaism, Christianity, & Islam

Abraham House

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation will support The Coexist Foundation with academic guidance from the University of Cambridge in setting up a world-class centre for education about Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Abraham House will be a spectacular new space in central London. It will be a place where members of the three Abrahamic faiths can meet on equal terms, encounter their traditions, and explore their roots; a place where they can both discover what they share and tackle their differences.

Welcome to The Coexist Foundation

"I am convinced this is one of the most helpful methods of improving integration." Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, Chairman of the Interfaith Relations Committee, the Muslim Council of Britain
	"God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences." Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations

replacement theology #1

supersessionism: Information from Answers.com

Martin Luther (1483–1546) wrote,

• "The Jews, surely rejected by God, are no longer his people, and neither is he any longer their God."^[14]

Augustine (354–430) is seen to follow these views of the earlier Fathers.

• "For if we hold with a firm heart the grace of God which hath been given us, we are Israel."^[8]
• "The Christian people then is rather Israel."^[9]

In fact, both Jesus and Paul are recorded as being explicit about their primary concern being Jews rather than gentiles.

• Mark 7:26–27: "The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. [Jesus] said to her, 'Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.'"
• Romans 2:10: "But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek."

R. Kendall Soulen notes three categories of supersessionism are identified by Christian theologians: punitive, "economic" and structural.^[15]

• Punitive supersessionism is represented by the quotes from Hippolytus, Origen and Luther above. It is the view that Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah are consequently condemned by God, forfeiting the promises otherwise due to them under the covenants.
• Economic supersessionism does not refer to money, rather it is used in the technical theological sense of function (see economic trinity). It is the view that the practical purpose of the nation of Israel in God's plans is replaced by the role of the church (represented by the quotes from Justin and Augustine above).
• Structural supersessionism is Soulen's term for the de facto marginalization of the Old Testament as normative for Christian thought. In his words, "Structural supersessionism refers to the narrative logic of the standard model whereby it renders the Hebrew Scriptures largely indecisive for shaping Christian convictions about how God’s works as Consummator and as Redeemer engage humankind in universal and enduring ways."^[16] Soulen's terminology is used by Craig A. Blaising, in 'The Future of Israel as a Theological Question'.^[17]

TLD #1

organic unity: Information from Answers.com

In Aristotle’s Poetics, organic unity is described by how writing relies internally on narration and drama to remain cohesive to one another, not separate entities. Without balance on both sides, the whole concept suffers.

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future internet #1

The Future of the Internet

As this paper describes, the architecture of the Internet has always been driven by a core group of designers, but the form of that group has changed as the number of interested parties has grown. With the success of the Internet has come a proliferation of stakeholders - stakeholders now with an economic as well as an intellectual investment in the network. continued --> http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_future.htm

--> A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

--> http://www.internet2.edu/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41HJTsCoI4

Linux and the Future of the Internet

Posted on April 29, 2008 by nseidm1.
Categories: Microsoft, Windows, blog, future, internet, linux, money, quality, website.

Currently a vast majority of the internet is filled with websites that have the sole intent to acquire capital. Quick, practically instant websites that are designed for this purpose are destined to fail primarily because they rely on duplicate content. New original content is necessary, because readers want to see new opinions and new ideas. Start from scratch, write your own material, which primarily entails determining the content that you wish to discuss. I like discussing fads occasionally; digg.com, and news outlets are great sources for temporary topics. Success will come from discussing topics that are timeframe independent. I will elaborate on this further by making a comparison to the relationship between Linux and Windows.

continued --> http://www.bgevolution.com/blog/linux-and-the-future-of-the-internet/

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