RT Article
T1 Kaufman's Debt to Kant: The Epistemological Importance of the “Structure of the World Which Environs Us”: with Myriam Renaud, “Gordon Kaufman's Humanizing Concept of God”; Jerome P. Soneson, “The Legacy of Gordon Kaufman: Theological Method and Its Pragmatic Norms”; J. Patrick Woolley, “Kaufman's Debt to Kant: The Epistemological Importance of the ‘Structure of the World which Environs Us”; Thomas A. James, “Gordon Kaufman, Flat Ontology, and Value: Toward an Ecological Theocentrism”; and Karl E. Peters, “A Christian Naturalism: Developing the Thinking of Gordon Kaufman.”
JF Zygon
VO 48
IS 3
SP 544
OP 564
A1 Woolley, J. Patrick 1971-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827964197
AB Gordon Kaufman's “constructive theology” can easily be taken out of context and misunderstood or misrepresented as a denial of God. It is too easily overlooked that in his approach everything is an imaginary construct given no immediate ontological status—the self, the world, and God are “products of the imagination.” This reflects an influence, not only of theories on linguistic and cultural relativism, but also of Kant's “ideas of pure reason.” Kaufman is explicit about this debt to Kant. But I argue there are other aspects of Kant's legacy implicit in his method. These center around Kaufman's engagement with “observed patterns” in nature. With Paul Tillich's aid, I bring this neglected issue to the fore and argue that addressing it allows one to more readily capitalize upon the Kantian influence in Kaufman's method. This, in turn, encourages one to tap more deeply into the epistemic underpinnings of Kaufman's approach to the science–religion dialogue.
K1 Time
K1 Paul Tillich
K1 Space
K1 science-religion dialogue
K1 Religious Dialogue
K1 Ontology
K1 Mystery
K1 Gordon Kaufman
K1 Immanuel Kant
K1 Epistemology
DO 10.1111/zygo.12032