Jesus and Creativity
Overview
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, Kaufman seeks to reenvision the symbol of Jesus within the contemporary scientific worldview. Building on his notion of God as simply creativity, he here locates the meaning of Jesus’ salvific story within an evolving universe and a threatened planet.
Outside the dualistic categories of the biblical worldview, Kaufman claims that the enormously creative and influential figure of the historic Jesus can play a vital role in the emergence and development of the cosmos and human history. Within that role, Jesus, his relation to God, and his centrality to Christian faith become clearer and our own lives and actions take on a new meaning.
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- Seeks to reenvision the symbol of Jesus within the contemporary scientific worldview
- Locates the meaning of Jesus’ salvific story within an evolving universe
- Claims the historic Jesus can play a vital role in the development of the cosmos and human history
- Reconceiving the Jesus-Trajectory
- Christology: Jesus as Norm
- Humans as Biohistorical Beings: Historicity, Creativity, Freedom
- Creativity Is Good News!
- Title: Jesus and Creativity
- Author: Gordon D. Kaufman
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Creation; Philosophical theology
- Resource ID: LLS:JESCREATKAUFMAN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:06:24Z