Cynthia Ozick in The Jewish Week Updike "does not theologize the Jew in Bech," Ozick wrote in her 1983 essay "Bech, Passing," still discussed a generation later.
Emanuel Cleaver in Kansas City Star A brilliant theologian is someone who can theologize issues, someone who can get the Bible and do what is called an exegesis in terms of lifting from the scriptures those things that are applicable for the world today,Cleaver said in an...