The Context Of Decision A Theological Analysis

Kaufman, Gordon D.

History

Franklin Classics

Theology for a Nuclear Age

The possibility of a nuclear holocaust has brought humankind into a radically new, unprecedented, and unanticipated religious situation. Gordon D. Kaufman offers a cogent and original analysis of this predicament, outlining specific proposals for reconceiving the central concerns and symbols of Christian faith. He begins with an account of a visit to Peace Park in the rebuilt city of Hiroshima. Reflecting upon this experience, Kaufman foresees that further use of nuclear weapons will result not in rebuilding but in annihilation of the human enterprise.

Theology for a nuclear age

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Westminster Press

In this challenging work, Gordon Kaufman asserts that the prime task of theology is the imaginative construction of the doctrine of God. Kaufman maintains that both the absoluteness of the divinity and our own necessity demand that we construct the doctrine of God critically and in a manner appropriate to our own time and place. In thorough examinations of God and theology, Christ and christology, and of the ultimate foundations of religious thought, he shows how this construction can be accomplished faithfully and in full realization of our own humanity.

The Theological Imagination: Constructing the Concept of God

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster/John Knox Press

The possibility of a nuclear holocaust has brought humankind into a radically new, unprecedented, and unanticipated religious situation. Gordon D. Kaufman offers a cogent and original analysis of this predicament, outlining specific proposals for reconceiving the central concerns and symbols of Christian faith. He begins with an account of a visit to Peace Park in the rebuilt city of Hiroshima. Reflecting upon this experience, Kaufman foresees that further use of nuclear weapons will result not in rebuilding but in annihilation of the human enterprise.

Systematic theology: A historicist perspective

Scribner

Manchester University Press

An Essay on Theological Method (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

Amer Academy of Religion

This book, first published in 1979, contains Gordon Kaufman's initial attempt to articulate his conviction that theology is, and always has been, an activity of what he calls the "imaginative construction" of a comprehensive and coherent picture of humanity in the world under God. While Kaufman's 1993 work,In Face of Mystery, qualifies and deepens the programmatic proposals offered in An Essay on Theological Method, the earlier book nevertheless remains a sound and accessible statement on theological method by one of America's most distinguished theologians. The Third Edition includes an extensive new Preface by the author, and an appendix on "The Three Moments of Theological Construction."

An Essay on Theological Method (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

Oxford University Press

- Important contemporary articulation of the concept of God by a leading theologian - Helpful as a sketch of the development of and problems with the traditional idea of God

In the Beginning... Creativity

Fortress Press

The lively interest today in the historical figure of Jesus is rarely matched by theological advances in understanding his person and significance for our own time and worldview. Gordon Kaufman takes up this challenge in this bold, speculative work. 
Despite the fabled difficulties of traditional Christological terms, few theologians since Tillich and Teilhard have sought to re-envision the symbol of Jesus within the contemporary scientific worldview. Building on his notion of God as simply creativity, Kaufman here locates the meaning of Jesus salvific story within an evolving universe and a threatened planet. 
Outside the dualistic categories of the biblical worldview, he finds, the enormously creative and influential figure of the historic Jesus can have a vital role in the emergence and development of the cosmos and human history. Within that role, he argues, Jesus, his relation to God, and his centrality to Christian faith become clearer and our own lives

Jesus And Creativity

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The Context Of Decision A Theological Analysis

Theology for a nuclear age

The Theological Imagination: Constructing the Concept of God

Theology for a Nuclear Age

Systematic theology: A historicist perspective

Theology for a Nuclear Age

An Essay on Theological Method (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

An Essay on Theological Method (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

In the Beginning... Creativity

Jesus And Creativity