Dr. David Tracy. . .

is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he taught since 1969.  A Professor in the Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods and in the Committee on Social Thought, he has also lectured at dozens of institutions throughout the world.  Dr. Tracy holds a Licentiate in Theology and a Doctorate in Theology from Gregorian University in Rome, plus 12 honorary doctorates.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Religion, and is the past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America.  His books include Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion and Hope (1987), Dialogue with the Other (1990), Naming the Present (1995), and This Side of God (2008).