The theological imagination : constructing the concept of God /

The theological imagination : constructing the concept of God /

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Author / Creator:	Kaufman, Gordon D.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1981.
Description:	309 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	God (Christianity) Theology, Doctrinal. God. God (Christianity) Theology, Doctrinal.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13208890

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ISBN:	0664243932 9780664243937
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	"In this challenging work, Gordon Kaufman asserts that the prime task of theology is the imaginative construction of the doctrine of God. Professor 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."--Book cover.
Other form:	Online version: Kaufman, Gordon D. Theological imagination. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1981

Table of Contents:

Constructing the concept of God
Attachment to God
The idea of relativity and the idea of God
The Christian categorial scheme
Toward a contemporary interpretation of Jesus
Evil and salvation: an anthropological approach
Christian theology and the modernization of the religions
Theology and the concept of nature
Metaphysics and theology
Christian theology as imaginative construction.