David Tracy
David Tracy ( born January 6, 1939 in Yonkers ) is an American Roman Catholic theologian.
Life
Tracy is a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport ( Connecticut ). He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned an MA in 1964 and his doctorate in theology in 1969. From 1967 to 1969 he taught at the Catholic University of America. In 1969 he was appointed professor of theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. In 1982 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Fairfield University in Connecticut and the catholical Theological Union and Rosary College in Chicago. His book Plurality and ambiguity. Hermeneutics, religion, hope was also translated into German. The relatively low level of awareness Tracy " in this country is in stark contrast to Tracy's influence in the American and international contemporary theology: In the introduction to this translation his student Werner G. Jeanrond wrote. His contributions to theological discussion of methods for self-understanding of theological thinking today and the question of God in the postmodern era have let Tracy in the eighties quickly become the most influential American theologians "In the appeared in 1991 in honor of David Tracy also three German theologians wrote: . Werner G. Jeanrond Johann Baptist Metz and Hans Küng.