09/07/2025 16:30
- 17:30
HALL: Seminar Room 05
Proponent:
Telser A.
Chair:
Jeanrond W.
Speaker:
Chase C.,
Turza Z.
This panel consists of three stand-alone parts (or "slots"), each of which takes it cue from a theme alive in the recent work of US-American theologian and philosopher of religion David Tracy (bn 1939). These are: cultural fragments; the lasting responsibility of theology to be publicly engaged; and the search for relatively adequate thought-namings of God. The papers at the panel will address these very same themes.
In 2020, Tracy published two volumes of his own re-edited essays, mostly recent, complete with new introductions (Fragments: The Existential Situation of our Time, and Filaments: Theological Profiles, University of Chicago Press). In 2023, he also contributed to an international volume of essays designed to reintroduce and creatively take up key themes from his work (Beyond the Analogical Imagination: The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy, Cambridge University Press).
The design of this panel will reflect Tracy's insistence on the central value and risk of open conversation. Each one-hour stand-alone part (or "slot") will kick off with two-short 10-minute presentations, to provoke questions and conversation in the content and form of Tracy's own endeavors. The remaining 40 minutes will then be for all in the room to join a conversation, building together new possibilities for inquiry and understanding.
