David Tracy

David Tracy (born January 6, 1939 in Yonkers ) is an American Roman Catholic theologian and priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport .

Life

David Tracy was born into an Irish Catholic family. He studied philosophy and theology at St. Joseph's seminary in Dunwoodie, a district of Yonkers and then, from 1960 to 1963, at the Gregorian in Rome, where he obtained his licentiate. Ordained a priest in 1963, he was a parish chaplain in Bridgeport , Connecticut . He then continued his studies at the Gregoriana. In 1969 he received his doctorate in theology with a dissertation on Bernard Lonergan . From 1967 to 1969 he taught at the Catholic University of America . In 1969 he was appointed professor of theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago .

Tracy became known in theological circles through his 1975 book Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology . His book Plurality and ambiguity. Hermeneutics, religion, hope was also translated into German. In the introduction to this translation, his student Werner G. Jeanrond wrote: “The relatively low level of awareness of Tracy in this country is in stark contrast to Tracy's influence in contemporary American and international theology. His contributions to theological discussion of methods, to the self-understanding of theological thinking today and to the question of God in postmodernism quickly made Tracy one of the most influential American theologians in the 1980s. ”In the 1991 commemorative publication for David Tracy, three German theologians also wrote: Werner G. Jeanrond , Johann Baptist Metz and Hans Küng .

Honors

David Tracy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020 .

In 2000 he was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh .

Tracy holds honorary degrees from the University of the South in Sewanee , Tennessee, Fairfield University in Connecticut, and the Catholical Theological Union and Rosary College in Chicago.

Fonts (selection)

1970: The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan
1975: Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology
1978: Toward Vatican III: The Work that Needs To Be Done (in collaboration with Hans Küng and Johann Baptist Metz)
1981: The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism
1983: Talking About God: Doing Theology in the Context of Modern Pluralism (in collaboration with John Cobb)
1984: Short History of the Interpretation of the Bible (in collaboration with Robert Grant)
1984: A Catholic Vision (in collaboration with Stephen Happel )
1987: Plurality and Ambiguity
1990: Dialogue with the Other: The Inter-Religious Dialogue
1994: On Naming the Present: God, Hermeneutics, and Church

literature

Edmund Arens : Obsessed by God. A portrait of the American theologian David Tracy . In: Herder Korrespondenz , vol. 69 (2015), pp. 479–482.

Web links

David Tracy's Faculty Profile at the University of Chicago Divinity School (English)

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b Edmund Arens: Obsessed by God. A portrait of the American theologian David Tracy . In: Herder Korrespondenz , vol. 69 (2015), pp. 479–482, here p. 479.
↑ Edmund Arens: Obsessed by God. A portrait of the American theologian David Tracy . In: Herder Korrespondenz , vol. 69 (2015), pp. 479–482, here p. 481.

personal data
SURNAME	Tracy, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yonkers

[Edmund_Arens_479-1] Edmund Arens: Obsessed by God. A portrait of the American theologian David Tracy . In: Herder Korrespondenz , vol. 69 (2015), pp. 479–482, here p. 479.

[2] Edmund Arens: Obsessed by God. A portrait of the American theologian David Tracy . In: Herder Korrespondenz , vol. 69 (2015), pp. 479–482, here p. 481.