Beyond the Analogical Imagination

Barnabas Palfrey is a Research Associate of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in the University of Cambridge and a former committee member of the Society for the Study of Theology. From 2012 to 2019, he helped to run – in his capacity as Lecturer-Tutor – Britain's largest and most ambitious MA programme in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He currently works for the UK's National Health Service. Andreas Telser studied Catholic theology in Boston and Chicago and gained his doctorate from the latter university with a thesis on David Tracy's public theology. He was formerly a lecturer in systematic theology at the Catholic Private University (KU) Linz. He works and publishes (mainly in German) at the intersection of religion, sociology and the arts. In 2010 he won the University of Innsbruck's prestigious Karl Rahner Prize for 'Theology as Public Discourse: The Relevance of David Tracy's Systematic Theology' (published in German in 2016 by Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia Gesellschaft).

This fine book makes a significant contribution to contemporary theology and especially to the impact of the thought of David Tracy, who is legitimately considered one of the most important of contemporary theologians. It is a volume marked by critical engagement with Tracy's thought, and is thus exactly what Tracy has always encouraged – an exercise in productive conversation. Although several other accounts of Tracy's thought have appeared in recent years, I think that this is by far the best because of the variety of voices it contains, the scope of its concerns, and especially the originality and insights of the various chapters. Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago

• Introduction Barnabas Palfrey; Part I. Theology and Culture: David Tracy's Theology-in-Culture Gaspar Martinez; Analogical Imagination and Ana-theological Believing Barnabas Palfrey; Closed Totality, Collage, and the Fragmentary Between C. A. Chase; Part II. Public and Beyond: Public Theology? David Tracy and Contemporary African Religiosity Dion A. Forster; From Public to Street Theology: The Mystical-Prophetic Fragments of Hip-Hop Alejandro Nava; Conversational Reason: Ambiguities and Interruptions in a Digital Age Stephen Okey; Part III. Church and World: Justice, Excessive Love, and the Future of Catholic Christianity Maria Clara Bingemer; Theological Dialogue Amid Anger and Pain Zoran Turza; The Church in David Tracy's Theology Werner G. Jeanrond; Part IV. From David Tracy: Reflections on the Essays David Tracy; On Naming God David Tracy; Part V. Post-script: David Tracy's Constructive Theology: Impressions, Contours, Conversations Willemien Otten.