| Going on to study divinity at the University of St Andrews, Playfair undertook his theological studies at St Mary's College, St Andrews. |
| Abhorring theological speculations, he did not commend renouncing the world and living the life of a recluse. |
| This led him to the political and theological right, far from his liberal roots in German Reform Judaism. |
| The scholastics developed the theological base for this form of private reconciliation. |
| Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system. |
| The alternative between a theological and an independent theory of ethics is, he holds, the alternative between ethical nominalism and realism. |
