The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism

by David Tracy

Book Overview

Plunges into the rich pluralism of modern religion--and comes up with a daring strategy of which each major religious tradition can be articulate its claiming to religious truth. Newsweek

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824500318
• ISBN13: 9780824500313
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Crossroad
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

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.