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Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: How Do You Respond to Those Who Say All Religions are the Same?
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Interview Date
4-14-1999
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Abstract
How do you respond to those who say all religions are the same?
Rev. Dr. David Tracy discusses how all religions, although they do respond to what he labels as “limit questions”, are not the same. Because their answers to such these questions are so dramatically different, they must be studied and understood individually, and not reduced to a common denominator.
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David Tracy and Alfred Benney. "Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: How Do You Respond to Those Who Say All Religions are the Same?" (1999) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred_benney/205/
Playing Time: 2:45 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Rev. Dr. David Tracy is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His publications include The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism and On Naming the Present: Reflections on God, Hermeneutics, and Church. Professor Tracy is currently writing a book on God.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.