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"Aimed at advanced students and upwards, this tightly organised international collection from theological experts forms a coherent and creative introduction to the most widely influential English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian of the past fifty years. It fills a gap in up-to-date commentary on the breadth and ambition of Tracy's ongoing thought"--
List of contents
Introduction Barnabas Palfrey; Part I. Theology and Culture: David Tracy's Theology-in-Culture Gaspar Martinez; Analogical Imagination and Ana-theological Believing Barnabas Palfrey; Closed Totality, Collage, and the Fragmentary Between C. A. Chase; Part II. Public and Beyond: Public Theology? David Tracy and Contemporary African Religiosity Dion A. Forster; From Public to Street Theology: The Mystical-Prophetic Fragments of Hip-Hop Alejandro Nava; Conversational Reason: Ambiguities and Interruptions in a Digital Age Stephen Okey; Part III. Church and World: Justice, Excessive Love, and the Future of Catholic Christianity Maria Clara Bingemer; Theological Dialogue Amid Anger and Pain Zoran Turza; The Church in David Tracy's Theology Werner G. Jeanrond; Part IV. From David Tracy: Reflections on the Essays David Tracy; On Naming God David Tracy; Part V. Post-script: David Tracy's Constructive Theology: Impressions, Contours, Conversations Willemien Otten.
About the author
Barnabas Palfrey is a Research Associate of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in the University of Cambridge and a former committee member of the Society for the Study of Theology. From 2012 to 2019, he helped to run – in his capacity as Lecturer-Tutor – Britain's largest and most ambitious MA programme in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He currently works for the UK's National Health Service.Andreas Telser studied Catholic theology in Boston and Chicago and gained his doctorate from the latter university with a thesis on David Tracy's public theology. He was formerly a lecturer in systematic theology at the Catholic Private University (KU) Linz. He works and publishes (mainly in German) at the intersection of religion, sociology and the arts. In 2010 he won the University of Innsbruck's prestigious Karl Rahner Prize for 'Theology as Public Discourse: The Relevance of David Tracy's Systematic Theology' (published in German in 2016 by Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia Gesellschaft).
Summary
Aimed at advanced students and upwards, this tightly organised international collection from theological experts forms a coherent and creative introduction to the most widely influential English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian of the past fifty years. It fills a gap in up-to-date commentary on the breadth and ambition of Tracy's ongoing thought.
