David Tracy

Esta obra constituye una concisa panorámica de la situación actual de la hermenéutica, es decir, la teoría de la interpretación de textos, que puede servir tanto de introducción para quien la desconoce totalmente, como de base de discusion para quien se sirve habitualmente de ella. En el ultimo capitulo, y dada su condicion de especialista en la materia, el autor se centra especificamente en la aplicacion de los resultados de su estudio a la religion y justifica desde alli su propia posicion ante el hecho religioso.

Can mercy overcome vengeance, can forgiveness conquer retribution, can accountability stand in for judgment, can a misdiagnosed Alzheimers patient solve the case? A Church divided like the two brothers in the parable of the Prodigal Son must return "home" - to the Gospel of Jesus. Four retired friends masquerade as residents in an Alzheimers facility, all to get a free lunch - until the plan goes awry. One of them is admitted while the actual patient wanders away. Learn how the friends return both home while living the Parable. In The ROMEOs, even the neighbourhood squirrels are trying to get home!

In the summer of 1993, about 400,000 youth from around the world came to Denver, Colorado to attend World Youth Day. Like a Dead Head Concert, the main attraction for those young people was a 73-year-old spiritual rock star - Pope John Paul II. Years prior to World Youth Day, a number of cults - what the Catholic Church terms "Movements of the Spirit" - began their own magnetic draw on youth all over the world. Hardly known to the vast majority of Catholics, the founders of these cults were every bit as cunning, domineering, and dangerous as Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and L. Ron Hubbard. The World Youth Day Murders is the story of a young Denver detective and his efforts to track down and stop a serial killer hidden deep within the bowels of a Catholic cult - the Focolare movement which continues to operate today. As in his previous book, The ROMEOs - The Parable of the Prodigal, David Tracy pens this fictional story based upon historical abuses which the Catholic Church chose to, and continues to hide. On a deeper level, Tracy is quick to point out that in many ways, the excesses of these Catholic cults are often mirrored in the more mainstream Catholic Church, and exemplified by the financial and sexual abuses that persist. Whether it be the actions of the mainstream Catholic Church or that of one of its cults, The World Youth Day Murders illustrates what deadly events can happen when good people allow strong personalities to do their thinking for them and what can happen when the Gospel is replaced by the whims of a compromised hierarchy. Once again, in The World Youth Day Murders, David Tracy exhibits a Quentin Tarantino take on the Catholic Church and its "Pulp Fiction" type of cults. Tracys book is not only entertaining but thought-provoking. It presumes to offer the Catholic bishops, so preoccupied with status, money, and power an opportunity to reflect upon the need for them to reinvent their ministries as guided by the Gospels, and to become true shepherd servants to their flocks. In this, his third book, David Tracy develops a new genre of murder, mystery, and suspense. Written in a style reminiscent of Malachai Martin and Larry McMurtry, Tracy masterfully mixes history with fantasy and moves his characters around like lethal chess pieces.

La prueba definitiva de la ortodoxia cristiana es la prueba de un estilo de vida genuinamente cristiano. Desde un punto de vista hermenéutico, el significado preciso de todas las proposiciones doctrinales esta determinado por su uso en un contexto historicamente determinado. Estas proposiciones continuan siendo validas, pero siempre necesitan nuevas formulaciones culturales y linguisticas en la conversacion cada vez mas intercultural de la Iglesia global. No existe una cultura, una tradicion o una ortodoxia inocentes. La teologia contemporanea hara bien en aplicar la hermeneutica occidental moderna: recuperacion, critica, sospecha, seguidas por una recuperacion mas informada. Se propone una cuadruple vision que pluraliza el enfoque teologico mistico-politico de epocas anteriores.

In Prohibition and the Priest David Tracy moves his characters from page to page like chess pieces. In the era of the Volstead Act he relates a well-researched true story of courage, intrigue, and betrayal that pits a righteous priest against a corrupt Catholic hierarchy, a scheming FBI, and a vicious Ku Klux Klan. Based on the life of Father Walter A. Grace, this page-turner weaves three family histories into a sobering yet entertaining work of fiction in the genre of Larry McMurtry and Malachi Martin. Only in Prohibition and the Priest can a reader find realistic interactions between an actual rum-runner, George Skelly, a young Jimmy Hoffa, a holy St. Andre Bessette, wholesome Shakers, an eccentric Babe Ruth, a cunning J. Edgar Hoover, and barbaric Klansmen. Add in a wrongly convicted priest, a beauty queen who is in love with him, and a blackmailed bishop, the reader wont want to put this book down. Cover design by Kelia Tracy