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Interview Date
4-14-1999
Abstract
What concerns do you have about present-day understandings of God?
Rev. Dr. David Tracy speaks of some current theological claims to call God “evil” or to include his participation in evil acts, and how from a theological and scriptural standpoint, he disagrees with such claims.
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Tracy, David and Benney, Alfred. Created by Alfred Benney. "Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: What Concerns Do You Have about Present-Day Understandings of God?" April 1999. DigitalCommons@Fairfield. Web. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/asrvideos/66
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About the Interviewee:
Rev. Dr. David Tracy is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His publications include The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism and On Naming the Present: Reflections on God, Hermeneutics, and Church. Professor Tracy is currently writing a book on God.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.