Dr. Gordon D. Kaufman was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity (Emeritus) at Harvard University where he taught since 1963. He lectured widely, and taught at universities across the United States (Pomona College and Vanderbilt), and also in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong. Kaufman was an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years, and he was also the subject of two Festschrift

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He was a past president of the American Academy of Religion

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(1982) and of the American Theological Society, as well as a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Kaufman was the author of over 12 books which have had a dramatic impact on how many in the mainline have considered the question of God language and religious naturalism

Religious naturalism

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. Among these are An Essay on Theological Method, God The Problem, Theology for a Nuclear Age, and In the Face of Mystery. This work earned him the 1995 American Academy of Religion Award for excellence among constructive books in religion.

He participated for many years in the discussions on Religious Naturalism at the The Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science

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 (Lecturer 2006)

God as Creativity

In a review of Kaufman’s In The Beginning…Creativity –

In a second review of In the beginning …Creativity .


Kaufman in his Prairie View lectures says –


A Zygon abstract on a Kaufman article states –.

Works

• In Face of Mystery - Harvard University Press (October 7, 2006, ISBN 0674445767, 4.5 Stars, GoodRead Award
• Jesus and Creativity - Fortress Press (July 30, 2006), ISBN 0800637984
• In the Beginning-- Creativity - Augsburg Fortress Publishers (July 2004), ISBN 0800660935, 5 Stars
• God, Mystery, Diversity - Augsburg Fortress Publishers (March 1, 1996), ISBN 0800629590, 5 Stars
• God, Mystery, Diversity - Christian Theology In A Pluralistic World, Fortress Press (1996) , ASIN: B0016A525G
• An Essay on Theological Method , An American Academy of Religion Book; 3 edition (January 2, 1995), ISBN 0788501356
• Theology for a Nuclear Age - Westminster John Knox Press (May 1985), ISBN 0664246281
• Theology an Imaginative Construction - Edwards Brothers (1982), ASIN: B0016JFF9A
• Nonresistance and Responsibility, and Other Mennonite Essays - Faith & Life Pr (June 1979), ISBN 0873030249
• God the Problem - Harvard University Press (December 12, 1972), ISBN 0674355261, 5 Stars, GoodRead Award
• The Theological Imagination - Westminster John Knox Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1981), ISBN 0664243932
• Systematic Theology - Scribner's (1968) , ASIN: B001OXJ7DS
• The Context of Decision;: A theological Analysis - Abingdon Press; 1st edition (1961), ASIN: B0007EB8QY
• Relativism, Knowledge, and Faith - University of Chicago Press (1960) , ASIN: B001P5RABQ
• Theology at the End of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Kaufman - Co-editors Sheila Greeve Davaney & Gordon D. Kaufman , Trinity Pr Intl (October 1991), ISBN 156338017X
• Mennonite Theology in Face of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Kaufman - Cornelius H. Wedel Historical Series 9, co-editors Gordon D. Kaufman & Alain Epp Weaver - Bethel College (July 1996) - ISBN 0963016075

See also

• Creativity
  Creativity
  Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...
  
  
• Mennonitism
• emergence
  Emergence
  In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems....
  
  
• Religious Naturalism
  Religious naturalism
  Religious naturalism is an approach to spirituality that is devoid of supernaturalism. The focus is on the religious attributes of the universe/Nature, the understanding of it and our response to it . These provide for the development of an eco-morality...
  
  
• Spiritual Naturalism
  Spiritual Naturalism
  Naturalistic Spirituality and Spiritual Naturalism are interchangeable terms for the same philosophical perspective, with the latter term more commonly used...
  
  
• Ursula Goodenough
  Ursula Goodenough
  Ursula W. Goodenough is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the best selling book Sacred Depths of Nature...
  
  
• Karl E. Peters
  Karl E. Peters
  Karl E. Peters is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL and former adjunct professor of philosophy, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. He also is the co-editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, and is a founder, organizer, and first President of the...
  
  

External links

• Harvard Faculty
• Interview with Gordon D. Kaufman, Harvard Divinity School, February 2009
• HDS obituary for Gordon Kaufman
• Amazon link for God the Problem