spirituality, religion, creativity, God 

In this major contribution to the theology-and-science debate, Kaufman argues that our traditional thinking about and worship of God have prepared us badly for perhaps the most important problem we face today - the ecological crisis. Kaufman begins with a survey of the pluriform development and effects of the notion of God. He then demonstrates how these concepts of God have become out of sync with contemporary understandings of the world and humanity. He offers an alternative concept by distinguishing the different modalities of creativity as they figure in the creation of the universe, the cosmic evolutionary process (especially the emergence of life), and human symbolic creativity. Finally, he sketches their interconnections and demonstrates in what way they stand for the divine.