Mordecai M. Kaplan’s Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers, 1956, pp. 81-86)

Reconstructionism is a method, rather than a series of affirmations or conclusions concerning Jewish life or thought.  Whatever I am about to state concerning my conception of God is Reconstruction-ist, only in the sense that I have arrived at it through the application of the Reconstructionist method.  I do not, by any means, claim that it is the only legitimate conception, even from a Reconstructionist point of view.  Nor should it be regarded as a Reconstructionist conception of God.  It is not within the province of the movement to pronounce any one theology as truer than another. 

           All that Reconstructionism stresses is that a Jew, to be a Jew in the full sense of the term, should have a theology in which he [sic] believes with all his heart, soul and mind….  In restating my position, I wish to do nothing more than to indicate why and wherein I personally find the conception of God, as the Power that makes for salvation, compelling, revealing and comforting.

           The fact that the cosmos possesses the resources and man [sic] the abilities – which are themselves part of those resources – to enable him to fulfill his destiny as a human being, or to achieve salvation – is the Godhood of the cosmos….

           As far as Jewish religion, with its teachings and rituals, is concerned, it matters very little how we conceive God, as long as we so believe in God that belief in Him [sic] makes a tremendous difference in our lives.