novelist Andrew Greeley. He also served on Chicago's Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods and the Committee on Social Thought. Tracy remained at the Divinity School until his retirement in late 2006. Tracy served as President of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 1976 to 1977. In 1980, that organization awarded him the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest award of the society. In 1982, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999–2000, Tracy gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The title of his lectures was This Side of God. The Gifford Lectures are widely considered to be the highest honor for those working in theology and religious studies. In 2018, Tracy contributed an essay to the catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. Tracy was described by Andrew Bolton, the curator of the exhibition, as "the J. D. Salinger of the theological world." Writings The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan (1970) Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology (1975) Toward Vatican III: The Work that Needs To Be Done, with Hans Küng and Johann Baptist Metz (1978) The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (1981) Talking About God: Doing Theology in the Context of Modern Pluralism, with John Cobb (1983) Short History of the Interpretation of the Bible, with Robert Grant (1984) A Catholic Vision, with Stephen Happel (1984) Plurality and Ambiguity (1987) Dialogue with the Other: The Inter-religious Dialogue (1990) On Naming the Present: God, Hermeneutics, and Church (1994) References Footnotes Bibliography External links David Tracy's Faculty Profile at the University of Chicago Divinity School This Side of God: A Conversation with David Tracy 20th-century American Roman Catholic theologians University of Chicago Divinity School faculty Living people 1939 births Catholic University of America faculty People from Yonkers, New York Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Gifford Lectures Public theologians Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the Catholic Theological Society of America 21st-century American Roman Catholic theologians