An Interview with David Tracy

Article by Lois Malcolm

With books like Blessed Rage for Order (1975) and The Analogical Imagination (1981), David Tracy became widely recognized as an important revisionist theologian — one who revised Christian categories in view of modern categories of thought. Tracy, 62, a Roman Catholic theologian who teaches at the University of Chicago, has also been associated with the …

God, Dialogue and Solidarity: A Theologian’s Refrain

Article by David Tracy

To respond to the question “How has your mind .changed (or remained the same) in the past ten years?” is initially disorienting. It seems to demand a degree of self-consciousness about one’s work that may be undesirable. Most of us carry our continuities of desire, hope, beliefs, opinions and judgments more subconsciously than consciously as …

Theology as Public Discourse

Article by David Tracy

This is the Third in a Series: New Turns in Religious Thought Historians of science insist that the most important periods in any discipline are those witnessing to a real conflict of basic paradigms. The central question becomes the very character of the discipline itself: What modes of argumentation, which methods, what warrants, backings, evidence …