David Novak, "Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II," Oct. 17, 2023
David Novak
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23 October 2023
17 December 2025
Dr. David Novak delivered the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning's 11th Annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations: "Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II." This lecture drew upon some of the profound insights of the late Pope John Paul II regarding human nature as biblically conceived.
David Novak is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor Emeritus of Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies in the University of Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 1997, and where he is currently a Fellow of St. Michael’s College. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and Consulting Scholar of Princeton University’s James Madison Program. David Novak is a Founder and now President of the Union for Traditional Judaism, and is Vice President of the Jewish Pro-Life Foundation. He is the author of nineteen books, among them, "The Sanctity of Human Life" (2007), "In Defense of Religious Liberty" (2009), "Jewish Justice" (2017), "Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature" (2019). David Novak is the subject of six books.
