“It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.” MenFactsChristianChristianityTeachingModernDuesOrthodoxAmusingOrthodox ChristianPersecutedRationalismMildness Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.” SelfSocialCommunityMemoriesPracticeModernInformationConcernObviousAvailableTraditionalOrthodoxHolocaustPreservationContinuitySelf PreservationMembership Author:Noah Feldman