God-Talk

David Novak is the author of nineteen books, the latest being Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature which received the Canadian Jewish Literary Award in 2020. His 2000 book, Covenantal Rights received the American Academy of Religion Award in 2000 for Best Book in Constructive Religious Thought. He is also the author of The Sanctity of Human Life (2009) and Zionism and Judaism: A New Theory (2016). He had edited four books and authored over 300 articles and reviews in numerous scholarly and intellectual journals. He is also one of the co-authors of the 2000 manifesto, Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity, which has been translated into eight languages. In 2019 he received the James Q. Wilson Award from the Association for the Study of Free Institutions at Princeton University; and Prix Philippe Pinel in Rome from the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and L’Académie International d’Éthique, Medécine et Politique Publique.

David Novak has the learning and the courage to voice his Judaic commitments clearly here: Long immersed in the Aggadic literature that is the vehicle of Judaic theology, he is ready to elicit from its texts, classical and modern, what he finds (and is prepared to argue) that Judaism calls on Jews to see and hear and think about God ... With him as a guide, [readers] too will find themselves at home and will gain a judgment like his, that will enable them to journey and grow all the stronger and more independent spiritually.

• PrefaceChapter 1: God-Talk: An IntroductionChapter 2: What is Jewish Theology?Chapter 3: The Inner Life of GodChapter 4: Seeing GodChapter 5: Natural Law and Natural TheologyBibliographyIndexAbout the Author