Gordon D. Kaufman

The Reverend Gordon D. Kaufman
Born	Gordon Dester Kaufman (1925-06-22)June 22, 1925 North Newton, Kansas, US
Died	July 22, 2011(2011-07-22) (aged 86)
Spouse	Dorothy Wedel ​ ​ (m. 1947; died 1998)​ [1]
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Mennonite)
Church	General Conference Mennonite Church[1]
Ordained	1953[1]
Academic background
Alma mater	Bethel College Northwestern University Yale University
Thesis	The Problem of Relativism and the Possibility of Metaphysics (1955)
Influences	Karl Barth[2] R. G. Collingwood[3] Wilhelm Dilthey[3] Immanuel Kant[2] H. Richard Niebuhr[2] Paul Tillich[3] Ludwig Wittgenstein
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Philosophical theology systematic theology
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy[4] theological liberalism[1]
Institutions	Pomona College Vanderbilt University Harvard University
Notable works	The Theological Imagination (1981) In Face of Mystery (1993)
Influenced	Sallie McFague Karl E. Peters

Gordon Dester Kaufman (22 June 1925 – 22 July 2011) was an American theologian and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, where he taught for over three decades beginning in 1963.^[1] He also taught at Pomona College and Vanderbilt University, and lectured in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong. Kaufman was an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years.