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In recent years the American theologian David Tracy has reached prominence far beyond the Divinity School of the University of Chicago where he has been teaching since 1969. His work is read everywhere where critical theology is done, and his books and articles are being translated into a rapidly increasing number of languages. This is not to say that everybody in Christian theology would necessarily agree with Tracy’s method of theologising and with his particular response to the plurality and ambiguity which face Christian theology. But it does mean that, whether ultimately in agreement or not, any serious discussion of theological method and other problems of fundamental theology will at least have to take proper account of Tracy’s proposals.
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Bernard Lonergan, Method in Theology (New York, 1972).
David Tracy, The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan (New York, 1970).
See Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, trans. Richard Crouter (Cambridge, 1988) pp. 101ff.
Cf. Werner G. Jeanrond, Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance, Studies in Literature and Religion series (London and New York, 1991 ) pp. 45–50.
David Tracy, Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology (New York, 1975) pp. 22–42.
David Tracy, The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (New York, 1981).
David Tracy, Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope (San Francisco, 1987).
Cf. Werner G. Jeanrond, Text and Interpretation as Categories of Theological Thinking, trans. Thomas J. Wilson (Dublin, and New York, 1988 ) pp. 140–2.
David Tracy, ‘Creativity in the Interpretation of Religion: the Question of Radical Pluralism’, New Literary History vol. 15 (1983–4) p. 296.
David Tracy, ‘On Naming the Present’, in Concilium: On the Threshold of the Third Millennium (London and Philadelphia, 1990) p. 68.
George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Philadelphia, 1984 ) pp. 16, 31–41.
David Tracy, Dialogue With the Other: The Inter-Religious Dialogue Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs no. 1 (Louvain, 1990).
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Jeanrond, W.G. (1993). Theology in the Context of Pluralism and Postmodernity: David Tracy’s Theological Method. In: Jasper, D. (eds) Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology. Studies in Literature and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22687-0_8
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