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Beyond the analogical imagination : the theological and cultural vision of David Tracy
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- Creator
- edited by Barnabas Palfrey, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, University of Cambridge, Andreas Telser
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781009004695, 1009004697, 9781009020442, 1009020447, 9781316519066, 9781316519066
- OCLC
- on1382695034
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Half-title page -- Review -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theology and Culture -- Public and Beyond -- Church and World -- From David Tracy -- Postscript -- Part I Theology and Culture -- Chapter 1 David Tracy's Theology-in-Culture -- Introduction -- David Tracy: A Theologian in Culturally Shifting Times -- Encountering Modernity -- The Hermeneutical Shift -- The Radical Problematising of Interpretation and Culture -- Tracy's Theology-in-Culture -- Chapter 2 Analogical Imagination and Ana-theological Believing -- Introduction -- Part A Powerful Imaginations Become Analogical -- Analogical and Dialectical Imaginations: The Example of Michelangelo -- Analogical Vision and Dialectical Rage -- Analogical Discourse as Knowledge and Wisdom -- Analogy -- 'Distinguish without Separation so as to Unite without Confusion': Focal Meanings -- Part B Ana(theo)logical Believing -- The 'Space' and 'Time' of Richard Kearney's Anatheism -- Strangers and Choices: Kearney's Focal Meaning -- Choosing and Believing -- Believing and Contemplating -- Conclusion: Focused Imaginations -- Chapter 3 Closed Totality, Collage, and the Fragmentary Between -- Fragment as Substance -- Fragment as Event -- Fragments as Collage -- Conclusion -- Part II Public and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Theology in the Public Realm? David Tracy and Contemporary African Religiosity -- Introduction -- Religion and Public Life in Some African Contexts -- On the Configuration of Religion and Life in Contemporary African Contexts -- Some Questions in Light of these African Experiences of Faith and Life -- How Can the Interpretive Process Assist in the Move from Postmodern to Post-Colonial and Decolonial Perspectives in Relation to African Public Theologies?
- How Can Tracy's Understanding of the Publicness of Theology Find Purchase in Relation to African Religiosity? -- How Does Tracy's Notion of 'the Classic' Relate to African Religiosity? -- In What Ways Might the Notion of an 'Analogical Imagination' Relate to the Experiences and Convictions of African Religiosity? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 From Public to Street Theology: The Mystical-Prophetic Fragments of Hip-Hop -- David Tracy's Public Theology and Mystical-Prophetic Thought -- Hip-Hop: Prophecy or Pleasure, Ethics or Aesthetics? -- Hip-Hop and American Life in Childish Gambino's 'This is America' -- Street Theology: A New Iteration of Liberation and Public Theologies -- Chapter 6 Conversational Reason: Ambiguities and Interruptions in a Digital Age -- Introduction -- Part A Reading Plurality and Ambiguity -- Conversation and Its Interruptions -- Critiquing Plurality and Ambiguity -- Part B Conversation in a Digital Age -- Sherry Turkle and Conversation's New Contexts -- Tracy and Turkle in Conversation about Conversation -- Conclusion -- Part III Church and World -- Chapter 7 Justice, Excessive Love, and the Future of Catholic Christianity -- Feminist Theology: Rooted in Incarnation -- Women: Love, Justice, and the Option for the Poor -- Doing Justice to Women: Excess of Love as Method -- Two Twentieth-Century Women in Love with God and Advocates for Justice -- Conclusion: The Future of Feminism is the Future of the Church -- Chapter 8 Theological Dialogue amid Anger and Pain -- Part A Tracy's Contribution -- Dialogue and History -- Tragedy and Fragments -- Part B Reconciling amid Pain and Anger -- A Post-Conflict Country -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 The Church in David Tracy's Theology -- The Church in Tracy's Theology -- Fragments of the Church in Tracy's Work -- The Church as Gift and Sacrament -- The Church and Otherness
- The Church and the Religious Other -- The Church and God's Coming Reign of Love -- Naming God and Christian Church Praxis -- Part IV From David Tracy -- Chapter 10 Reflections on the Essays -- Chapter 11 On Naming God -- The Biblical Background -- Ancient Greek Philosophy -- Christian Theology on God as Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa -- The Medieval Debate on God's Perfection (Anselm) and Infinity (Scotus) -- Part V Postscript -- Chapter 12 David Tracy's Constructive Theology: Impressions, Contours, Conversations -- Impressions -- Contours -- Conversations -- By Way of a Coda: Da Capo al Fine -- Bibliography -- Index