Gordon D. Kaufman
Forfatter af Systematic Theology: A Historicist Perspective
Om forfatteren
Gordon D. Kaufman is Professor of Theology Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School.
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Associated Works
The Rationality of Religious Belief: Essays in Honour of Basil Mitchell (1987) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (2007) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
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- Kaufman, Gordon D.
- Fødselsdato
- 1925-06-22
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (til kort)
- USA
- Uddannelse
- Bethel College (AB ∙ 1947)
Northwestern University (MA ∙ Sociology ∙ 1948)
Yale Divinity School (BDiv ∙ 1951)
Yale University (PhD ∙ Philosophical Theology ∙ 1955)
Bethel College (LHD ∙ 1973) - Erhverv
- professor
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- Harvard Divinity School (Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emeritus)
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What I find baffling about theologians like Kaufman is that they seem completely ignorant of the creative process--the human experience of engaging in a creative act, and how very relational this process can be. At the end of this book, I felt like Flannery O'Connor--if it's just a metaphor, to hell with it. Human beings can actively engage with a creative, loving, just source that is not simply a symbol but a lived reality. Once again, here's an example of a smart person dismissing the power of imagination. Just because humans have created "God" as an imaginative symbol does not mean that God does not exist. We co-create in relationship with this mystery.… (mere)