Theodor Heuss praised Hebel's use of the native Alemannic language, not only for parody and vulgarity, but also to make it "a true tool of the poetic craft", and according to Heuss he created a work that "resonates with the durable, the valid, the eternal, the eternally human".
In this work Albo sought to enumerate those fundamental dogmas or articles of faith of Judaism that are essentially derived from the divine law and can thus be eternally valid for other religions as well.
Insofar as it aims at directing and guiding human action in all of the fields in which value judgments occur, philosophy is no longer conceived as the search for self-evident, necessary, universally and eternally valid principles but, rather, as the structuring of common principles, values, and loci, accepted by what the philosopher sees as the universal audience.
Jewish Orthodoxy resolutely refuses to accept the position of Reform Judaism that the Bible and other sacred Jewish writings contain not only eternally valid moral principles but also historically and culturally conditioned adaptations and interpretations of the Law that may be legitimately discarded in modern times.
Orthodox Judaism, consequently, rejects the view held by modern Reform Judaism that the Bible and other sacred Jewish writings contain not only eternally valid moral principles but also historically and culturally conditioned interpretations of the Law that may be legitimately abandoned.
But it is paradoxical that Vedder's drawings, with their rigid style and formulaic symbolism, are locked in late 19th century esthetics, while the Rubaiyat's 800-year-old verses reflect a fatalism, skepticism and mistrust of authority that seem both eternally valid and right in tune with contemporary attitudes.
Traditionally, it was believed that: 1) The Torah is the word of God as dictated to Moses; and 2) it contains both the history of ancient Israel and the eternally valid laws that bind the Jewish people the mitzvoth.
Therefore the lessons of history are eternally valid.
There is visualization, there are affirmations, there are ancient but eternally valid healing arts.
Somehow, the poet (whose musings would later be incorporated into the cultural canon assembled by a simpatico countryman named Confucius) never stops to acknowledge his creative debt to the eternally valid insights of early 21st century New York Times opinion pages.
The Christian clergy who embraced Wellhausen's work began to understand that the Bible should not be read as a book of definitive facts and eternally-valid moral prescriptions, but rather as a mythic and poetic record of humanity's spiritual and social evolution.
