[1] He also taught at Pomona College and Vanderbilt University, and lectured in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong.

Kaufman was the author of 13 books, which influenced how many mainline Christians have considered God language and religious naturalism.

In a review of Kaufman's In The Beginning ... Creativity:[7] For religious people a challenge is to bridge their belief in God with scientific explanations of the world.

There is a huge need for a new understanding of God that bridges these viewpoints... His book is the first that makes a big step forward on this issue.

A personal God is not an idea that is comprehensible in this type of settingKaufman in his Prairie View lectures says:[9] I suggested that what we today should regard as God is the ongoing creativity in the universe - the bringing (or coming) into being of what is genuinely new, something transformative;...In some respects and some degrees this creativity is apparently happening continuously, in and through the processes or activities or events around us and within us... is a profound mystery to us humans...But on the whole, as we look back on the long and often painful developments that slowly brought human life and our complex human worlds into being, we cannot but regard this creativity as serendipitous...I want to stress that this serendipitous creativity - God!

- to which we should be responsive is not the private possession of any of the many particular religious faiths or systems...This profound mystery of creativity is manifest in and through the overall human bio-historical evolution and development everywhere on the planet; and it continues to show itself throughout the entire human project, no matter what may be the particular religious and or cultural beliefsA Zygon abstract on a Kaufman article states: Thinking of God today as creativity (instead of as The Creator) enables us to bring theological values and meanings into significant connection with modern cosmological and evolutionary thinking.

It is appropriate, therefore, to think of God today as precisely this magnificent panorama of creativity with which our universe and our lives confront us.

[12] Hence the resultant is a "theology within the limits of reason alone", holding with Kant the imaginative construction of basic concepts of religious ideas.