Английская Википедия:Gordon D. Kaufman

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Gordon Dester Kaufman (22 June 1925 – 22 July 2011) was an American theologian and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, where he taught for over three decades beginning in 1963. He also taught at Pomona College and Vanderbilt University, and lectured in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong. Kaufman was an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years.

Early years

Kaufman was born on June 22, 1925, in North Newton, Kansas.Шаблон:Sfn He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethel College in 1947.Шаблон:Sfn He earned his Master of Arts degree in sociology from Northwestern University in 1948, a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1951, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophical theology from Yale University in 1955.Шаблон:Citation needed His dissertation was titled The Problem of Relativism and the Possibility of Metaphysics.Шаблон:Sfn In 1961–1962 he completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Career

In addition to Kaufman's long tenure at Harvard Divinity School, he was a past president of the American Academy of Religion (1982) and of the American Theological Society, as well as a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Kaufman was the author of 13 books, which influenced how many mainline Christians have considered God language and religious naturalism. Among these are An Essay on Theological Method, God The Problem, Theology for a Nuclear Age, and In the Face of Mystery. This last 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 Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (Lecturer 2006) He was the subject of two Festschriften.

Views on God

In a review of Kaufman's In The Beginning ... Creativity:

In a second review of In the Beginning ... Creativity:

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Kaufman in his Prairie View lectures says:

A Zygon abstract on a Kaufman article states:

God as mystery

For Kaufman, the only "available referent" for the word God is the construct we hold in our minds, a construct that has developed over the centuries. There may be a "real referent", but even if there is, it remains "a transcendent unknown".Шаблон:Sfn Thus, Kaufman thinks of God as "ultimate mystery". He does not speculate whether there is an "extra-human reality" called God. Thus, as a theologian, he views his work as dealing with "profound, ultimately unfathomable, mystery".Шаблон:Sfn Hence the resultant is a "theology within the limits of reason alone", holding with Kant the imaginative construction of basic concepts of religious ideas. Thus, Kaufman developed a "generic theology" for postmodern Christians of "an utterly transcendent God".Шаблон:Sfn

The "ultimate mystery" called "God" serves as a living symbol in our culture. For many people, it functions as the primary point for "orientation and devotion." Being oriented on the "ultimate mystery in things" is an awareness of one's "bafflement of mind" over the mystery "that there is something and not nothing." When the mystery is thought of as God, it evokes not only bafflement but trust and confidence.Шаблон:Sfn

Works

• In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology - Harvard University Press (October 7, 1993), Шаблон:ISBN
• Jesus and Creativity - Fortress Press (July 30, 2006), Шаблон:ISBN
• In the Beginning-- Creativity - Augsburg Fortress Publishers (July 2004), Шаблон:ISBN
• God, Mystery, Diversity: Christian Theology In A Pluralistic World - Augsburg Fortress Publishers (March 1, 1996), Шаблон:ISBN
• An Essay on Theological Method, An American Academy of Religion Book; 3rd edition (January 2, 1995), Шаблон:ISBN
• Theology for a Nuclear Age - Westminster John Knox Press (May 1985), Шаблон:ISBN
• Theology an Imaginative Construction - Edwards Brothers (1982), ASIN: B0016JFF9A
• The Theological Imagination - Westminster John Knox Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1981), Шаблон:ISBN
• Nonresistance and Responsibility, and Other Mennonite Essays - Faith & Life Press (June 1979), Шаблон:ISBN
• God the Problem - Harvard University Press (December 12, 1972), Шаблон:ISBN
• 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), Шаблон:ISBN
• 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) - Шаблон:ISBN

See also

• Christian agnosticism
• Constructive theology
• Liberal Christianity
• Mennonites
• Postchristianity
• Post-theism
• Progressive Christianity
• Spiritual naturalism
• Ursula Goodenough

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External links

• Interview with Gordon D. Kaufman, Harvard Divinity School, February 2009
• HDS obituary for Gordon Kaufman Шаблон:Webarchive
• Gordon Kaufman Resource Page