David Tracy

David W. Tracy was on born 6 January 1939 in Yonkers, New York. A Catholic scholar, priest, and theologian, he was known for his independent and original thinking. Inspired by the Second Vatican Council, he received his licentiate in 1964 and doctorate in 1969 from the Gregorian University in Rome. From 1967 to 1969, Tracy taught at the Catholic University of America. Following conflict with Pope Paul VI, he moved to the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1985 and was named Distinguished Service Professor, achieving emeritus status in 2006. 

A recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America, Tracy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982. He contributed an essay to the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. His notable publications include The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan (1970), Blessed Rage for Order (1975), The Analogical Imagination (1981), Plurality and Ambiguity (1987), Dialogue with the Other (1990), and On Naming the Present (1994).