The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism

by David Tracy

Book Overview

An essential addition to any serious theological library. David Tracy introduces his influential concept of the "classic," as well as his idea of the difference between analogical and other ways of viewing the life of faith. He looks at the culture of pluralism, examining the main differences in the world's theological doctrines.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824506944
• ISBN13: 9780824506940
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Herder & Herder
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

confronting the problem of alternate truth claims

Tracy attempts to reach a methodological framework from which to account for the vast differences in theological doctrines--that is, plurality. His scholarship is erudite and felicitously written. He draws on all the big names in philosophy and theology, but his system remains lacking because of its reliance upon a Kantian view of knowledge and in the end there is little room for actual truth. Rather, truth is more practical in providing existential answers to various situations. Tracy's spirit in writing is good. Christians should work to keep theology vital and public. Utlimately though, Tracy's book is a deft move to declare relativism the norm of praxis.