Gordon D. Kaufman
American Mennonite theologian (1925–2011) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | Gordon Dester Kaufman (1925-06-22)June 22, 1925 North Newton, Kansas, US |
Died | July 22, 2011(2011-07-22) (aged 86) |
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Dorothy Wedel
(m. 1947; died 1998) |
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Religion | Christianity (Mennonite) |
Church | General Conference Mennonite Church[1] |
Ordained | 1953[1] |
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Thesis | The Problem of Relativism and the Possibility of Metaphysics (1955) |
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Discipline | Theology |
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