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Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: What Contributions Do You Think American Catholic Theologians Have Made to the Church at Large?
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Interview Date
4-14-1999
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What contributions do you think American Catholic Theologians have made to the Church at large?
Rev. Dr. David Tracy discuses the idea of pluralism, and how he believes American Catholic Theologians have given rise in the Church to a much-warranted exposure to the pluralistic views of Catholics, both culturally and religiously.
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David Tracy and Alfred Benney. "Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: What Contributions Do You Think American Catholic Theologians Have Made to the Church at Large?" (1999) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred_benney/218/
Playing Time: 1:09 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.