Subdivision
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| | | Name: | Professor David Tracy | | | Institution: | University of Chicago Divinity School and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
David Tracy is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies, and Professor Emeritus of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought.
A noted teacher, scholar, philosopher of religion and theologian, Tracy earned his doctorate in 1969 at the Gregorian University in Rome. He taught at the Catholic University of America from 1967 to 1969, when he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He was also a member of the Committee on Social Thought. His courses focused on a wide variety of courses in philosophy, in historical and contemporary theology, in philosophical systematic and constructive theology and hermeneutics, and on issues and persons in religion and modern thought—and as well as other courses on Greek and modern tragedy in the university’s Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. He was one of the founding editors of Religious Studies Review and for many years on the editorial board of Concilium.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982 and has lectured in universities and colleges in the United States and around the world, including Scotland, where he delivered the prestigious Gifford lectures which were established to promote and diffuse the study of natural theology.
His publications include Blessed Rage for Order (1979), The Analogical Imagination (1981), Plurality and Ambiguity (1987), Dialogue with the Other: The Inter-religious Dialogue (1990), On Naming the Present: Reflections on God, Hermeneutics, and Church (1994) and two books of his essays - Fragments: the Existential Situation of Our Time (2020) and Filaments: Theological Profiles (2020). He is currently writing a book based on his Gifford lectures, "Infinity and Naming God."
David Tracy was elected a member of the Americn Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
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