Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time: Selected Essays, Volume 1

420 Pages·2020·2.95 MB·English

by  David Tracy

FRAGMENTS
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FRAGMENTS
The Existential Situation of Our Time
Selected eSSayS ¤  Volume 1
DAVID TRACY
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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Names: Tracy, David, author.
Title: Fragments : the existential situation of our time : selected essays, volume 1 / David Tracy.
Other titles: Existential situation of our time
Description: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2020. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccN 2019024423 | ISBN 9780226567297 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226584508 (ebook)
Subjects: lcSH: Theology. | Hermeneutics—Religious aspects. | Public theology.
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To Arthur Rossell Tracy
brother and friend
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We will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in
fragments and from different angles of vision. Gandhi
The fragment is that part of the totality of the work that
opposes totality. Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
Part 1: The Existential Situation of Our Time
1 Fragments: The Spiritual Situation of Our Time 19
2 The Ultimate Invisible: The Infinite 35
3 Responses to Horror and Suffering:
The Responses of Tragedy and Some Religions 57
4 Christianity and Suffering 83
5 Metaphysics, Theology, and Mysticism 93
Part 2: Hermeneutics
6 Hermeneutical Reflections in the New Paradigm of Theology 131
7 Western Hermeneutics and Interreligious Dialogue 145
8 The Dialogical Turn of Contemporary Thought 187
9 Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics and the Dialectic
of Religious Forms 211
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Part 3: Publicness and Public Theology
10 Theology, Critical Social Theory, and the Public Realm 241
11 Religion in the Public Realm: Three Forms of Publicness 269
12 Practical Theology: Its Mystical- Prophetic Character 289
13 Argument, Dialogue, and the Soul in Plato 307
Part 4: Religion, Theology, and Dialogue
14 Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts 327
15 Mystics, Prophets, Rhetorics: Religion and Psychoanalysis 347
16 Contemplation, Speculation, Action:
Reflections on Orthodox Theology 365
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
385
INDEX OF NAMES
389
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
405
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