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Title: Analogical Imagination by David Tracy ISBN: 0-8245-0694-4 Publisher: Herder & Herder Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How the Particular Can Have Relevance for Everyone
Comment: David Tracy is one of the most brilliant Christian theologians of this generation. He is also one of the most generous. Even as a young man, his range was breath-taking. His endnotes take his readers on guided tours of the best recent scholarship in a dozen fields, including philosophy, history, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, Biblical studies, comparative religious studies, hermeneutics, and critical theory. No serious work on the topic he has chosen is ignored. Each is cited for its strengths; none are trivialized or merely dismissed. Over the years, his range has remained remarkable, while his theology has become richer, subtler, more sensitive to human cruelty and human suffering, to conflicts, interruptions, displacements, blind alleys, and states of extreme tension and danger. He has been one of the great teachers of theology in this generation, a mentor to dozens of important younger scholars in a variety of church traditions. This book marked a kind of mid-point in his career. In it he grapples with the difficult question of how a particular event, a particular person, a particular tradition or a particular expression of passion, discipline and insight can become of general and even universal relevance and fundamental importance. Key to his treatment of these issues was his appropriation of the category of "the classic." Since his own tradition and faith community is Roman Catholic, this book becomes a deeply thoughtful and well focused exposition of the philosophical commitments and methodological principles that could make possible an adequate contemporary theological account of what it means to be "Catholic." This book, on the grounds and method of a Catholic systematic theology, was supposed to be followed by a major work on praxis and the needed framework for a "practical theology." But the path of his thinking took a different turn. For over a decade--or a decade and a half--he has instead been working on a major treatment of the Christian understanding of "God." Along the way, his Gifford Lectures, never published, gave some indication at least of the direction his thought on this subject has taken. All of us who feel indebted to him await the publication of this work with an expectation of a great banquet. Along with figures like Joseph Komonchak, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, John D. Caputo, and Bernard McGinn, Tracy has brought American Catholic thought onto a world stage. For anyone struggling with the implications of Christian faith in the postmodern situation of American culture Tracy's work can be a source of illumination, wisdom, and solace.
Rating: 4
Summary: confronting the problem of alternate truth claims
Comment: Tracy attempts to reach a methodological framework from which to account for the vast differences in theological doctrines--that is, plurality. His scholarship is erudite and felicitously written. He draws on all the big names in philosophy and theology, but his system remains lacking because of its reliance upon a Kantian view of knowledge and in the end there is little room for actual truth. Rather, truth is more practical in providing existential answers to various situations. Tracy's spirit in writing is good. Christians should work to keep theology vital and public. Utlimately though, Tracy's book is a deft move to declare relativism the norm of praxis.
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Title: Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope by David Tracy ISBN: 0226811263 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Method in Theology by Bernard J.F. Lonergan ISBN: 080206809X Publisher: University of Toronto Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck ISBN: 0664246184 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Models of Contextual Theology by Stephen B. Bevans ISBN: 1570754381 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Catholic Imagination by Andrew Greeley ISBN: 0520232046 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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