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Title

In the beginning-- creativity / Gordon D. Kaufman.

Author

Kaufman, Gordon D.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xv, 152 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Gordon Kaufman's works over the last thirty years have pushed theologians to examine honestly, if painfully, their most cherished assumptions about God. Now, in this contribution to the theology-and-science debate, he argues that our traditional thinking about and worship of God have prepared us badly for perhaps the most important problem humans must address in today's world - the ecological crisis." "Kaufman first surveys the pluriform historical development and effects of the notion of God. He then demonstrates how these concepts of God have gotten out of sync with contemporary understandings of the world and humanity. He offers an alternative concept by distinguishing the different modalities of creativity as they figure in the creation of the universe, the cosmic evolutionary process (especially the emergence of life), and human symbolic creativity. He then sketches the interconnections and demonstrates in what way they stand for the divine." "This volume not only develops further than ever before Kaufman's idea of God as creativity but also shows what it would mean to think of God in this way, to live with faith in this God, and to cooperate with the divine in meeting our most pressing global challenges."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• God
• God (Christianity)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: The Word "God" -- Today's evolutionary/ecological world and the theological structure of Christian faith -- On thinking of God as serendipitous creativity -- In the beginning-- creativity -- Epilogue: The development of my theological thinking -- Themes.

ISBN

• 0800660935 (hardback)
• 0800636848 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004008046

OCLC

• 54974658
• SCSB-10117422

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library