David Tracy's scientific contributions
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Publications (4)
O VER THE LAST twenty-five years Bernard Lonergan's work in phi-losophy and theological method has gained widespread interest, if not acclaim. The first doctoral dissertation on Lonergan was written in 1967, 1 Lonergan's own Method in Theology came out in 1972, 2 and in the fall of 1984 Lonergan passed away. During this period, and since his death,...
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... Tracy posited that theologians are always engaging in dialogue with a range of structures of rationality and their constituent questions, meanings, competing truths and lived experiences. From a theological perspective, these structures of rationality can be related to three typological 'publics' (Tracy 1981(Tracy :6-13, 2014. He suggests that because of the nature of theological reflection in contemporary societies, the theologian engages 'three distinct and related social realities: the wider society, the academy, and the church' (Tracy 1981:5). ...
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... Drawing on a number of key, classic texts in liturgical theology, for example, we are reminded that our being in the world is a necessarily embodied phenomenon and we ignore or underestimate the body and its performances at our peril. Tracy (1981) notes that ritual and liturgy are key to any substantive experience of God in the world. These experiences ground the imagination, not only in the conceptual world of thoughts, dreams and ideas, but in the sensorial realities of sound, gesture, touch, smell and sight. ...
