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Filaments
Theological Profiles: Selected Essays, Volume 2
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English
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2020
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In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought of in terms of Walt Whitman’s “filaments,” which are thrown out from the speaking self to others—ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary—in order to be caught elsewhere.
Filaments arranges its subjects in rough chronological order, from choices in ancient theology, such as Augustine, through the likes of William of St. Thierry in the medieval period and Martin Luther and Michelangelo in the early modern, and, finally, to modern and contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Lonergan, Paul Tillich, Simone Weil, Karl Rahner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Iris Murdoch. Taken together, these essays can be understood as a partial initiation into a history of Christian theology defined by Tracy’s key virtues of plurality and ambiguity. Marked by surprising insights and connections, Filaments brings the work of one of North America’s most important religious thinkers once again to the forefront to be celebrated by longtime and new readers alike.
Filaments arranges its subjects in rough chronological order, from choices in ancient theology, such as Augustine, through the likes of William of St. Thierry in the medieval period and Martin Luther and Michelangelo in the early modern, and, finally, to modern and contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Lonergan, Paul Tillich, Simone Weil, Karl Rahner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Iris Murdoch. Taken together, these essays can be understood as a partial initiation into a history of Christian theology defined by Tracy’s key virtues of plurality and ambiguity. Marked by surprising insights and connections, Filaments brings the work of one of North America’s most important religious thinkers once again to the forefront to be celebrated by longtime and new readers alike.
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“These volumes will do justice to North America’s preeminent Catholic thinker for the past forty years, as well as contributing significantly to his legacy. Tracy has earned this distinction over a lifetime of conversation and argument on matters philosophical and theological. He is a religious thinker whose thought is woven into the fabric of the disciplines, and which very different thinkers can take up for very different reasons.”
— Cyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame“Tracy is himself a Rome-like theologian, whose intellectual imagination and wide-ranging interests entice him continually into new byways of thought, more and diverse thinkers, and revised perspectives on old interests. These latest volumes, comprised of essays and talks given over more than forty years, invite the reader into the ancient city of Tracy’s theology. . . . [The volumes] gather essays spanning five decades, imposing structure on a set of reflections from one of the most visionary and expansive living theologians. If we cannot by these volumes summit the mountain of Tracy’s theology, we must admit that is because there is no peak to crest. There is instead an ancient city to explore, teeming with gifts of erudition and liberality, pointing us to Alps upon Alps.”
— Journal of the American Academy of Religion"To read [it] is to be educated and enriched by a remarkable breadth of inquiry and depth of analysis... Tracy's passion for theological conversation is... fuelled by a desire for justice and peace, but also by wonder at the unending love and creativity of God."
— Critical Theology"David Tracy has a good claim to be the most prominent Catholic theologian of the last half-century in North America and one of the leading Catholic voices of his generation worldwide. . . . These substantial volumes of studies by Tracy spanning over four decades exhibit consistently one of the most appealing features of his work, a deep intellectual generosity that is willing to tease out from the work of figures to whom you would expect him to be antipathetic significant perspectives and questions deserving positive exploration."
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
1 - Part 1: ANCIENTS, MEDIEVALS, MODERNS
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Chapter 1. AUGUSTINE OUR CONTEMPORARY
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Chapter 2. AUGUSTINE’S CHRISTOMORPHIC THEOCENTRISM
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Chapter 3. TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY
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Chapter 4. MARTIN LUTHER’S DEUS THEOLOGICUS
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Chapter 5. MICHELANGELO AND THE CATHOLIC ANALOGICAL IMAGINATION
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Chapter 6. REINHOLD NIEBUHR
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Chapter 7. “ALL IS GRACE”
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Chapter 8. PAUL TILLICH AND CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
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Chapter 9. BERNARD LONERGAN AND THE RETURN OF ANCIENT PRACTICE IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
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Chapter 10. FRAGMENTS OF SYNTHESIS
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Chapter 11. THE STRENGTH OF REASON
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Chapter 12. LINDBECK’S NEW PROGRAM FOR THEOLOGY
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Chapter 13. JEAN-LUC MARION
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Chapter 14. FEMINIST THEOLOGY
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Chapter 15. ARTHUR COHEN
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Chapter 16. GUSTAVO GUTIÉRREZ AND THE CHRISTIAN OPTION FOR THE POOR
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Chapter 17. JAMES CONE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN THOUGHT
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Chapter 18. SIMONE WEIL AND THE IMPOSSIBLE
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Chapter 19. SIMONE WEIL
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Chapter 20. IRIS MURDOCH AND THE MANY FACES OF PLATONISM
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Chapter 21. T. S. ELIOT AS RELIGIOUS THINKER
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INDEX OF NAMES
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December 16, 2020
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Keywords for this book
augustine; william of st thierry; michelangelo; martin luther; iris murdoch; reinhold niebuhr; karl rahner; simone weil; paul tillich; bernard lonergan; theology; biography; religion; christianity; catholicism; spirituality; plurality; ambiguity; deus theologicus; trinity; modernity; louis dupre; franklin gamwell; reason; morality; feminism; holocaust; poverty; race; hermeneutics; phenomenology; jean-luc marion; platonism; ts eliot; four quarters; nonfiction
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
