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David Tracy (David W. Tracy) was born on 6 January, 1939 in Yonkers, New York, US, is an American Roman Catholic theologian and priest (born 1939). Discover David Tracy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 6 January, 1939
Birthday 6 January
Birthplace Yonkers, New York, US
Nationality United States

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1939

David W. Tracy (born 1939) is an American theologian and Roman Catholic priest.

He is Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

David Tracy was born on January 6, 1939, to John Charles Tracy and Eileen Marie Tracy (née Rossell) in Yonkers, New York.

He had two brothers, John Jr. and Arthur.

His father was a union organizer who liked to read Henry Adams to his children.

1952

Feeling an intense call to the priesthood as an adolescent, Tracy started attending the Cathedral School in 1952.

The Cathedral School served as a high school and minor seminary for the Archdiocese of New York.

1960

In 1960, he left New York for Rome to study at the Gregorianum.

His vocation to study theology was profoundly encouraged by the Second Vatican Council taking place at that time.

1963

He was ordained in Rome on December 18, 1963, and served in the diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1963.

1964

Tracy received his Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Gregorianum in 1964, after which he spent one year at a parish in Stamford, Connecticut.

He has said that he had always wanted to work in a parish, but during his one year of doing so, he felt a strong call to the academic life.

1967

Tracy's first academic teaching appointment was a lectureship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he began in 1967.

1968

In 1968, Tracy joined with Bernard McGinn and twenty other professors at CUA in rejecting Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae.

He and the others were tried by CUA's faculty senate and summarily fired.

They sued the university, were represented by American Civil Liberties Union lawyers, and ultimately won their case.

In the midst of this trial, Jerald Brauer, then dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, convinced Tracy (as well as McGinn) to come to the University of Chicago.

1969

He returned to Rome and received his doctorate from the Gregorian University in 1969.

1976

Tracy served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 1976 to 1977.

1980

In 1980, that organization awarded him the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest award of the society.

1982

In 1982, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1984

Tracy also held the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professorship in Roman Catholic Studies, which was established in 1984 by Roman Catholic priest, sociologist and novelist Andrew Greeley.

He also served on Chicago's Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods and the Committee on Social Thought.

1985

In 1985, Tracy was named a Distinguished Service Professor there, and in 1987, a Distinguished Service Professor of Roman Catholic Studies.

1999

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.

2006

Tracy remained at the Divinity School until his retirement in late 2006.

2018

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."

2020

In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.