Author: BarnabasPalfrey

Dr Barnabas Palfrey is a research associate of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, University of Cambridge. His doctorate, entitled ‘Theology as Dialogue and Fragment: Saying God with David Tracy’, was awarded by the University of Oxford in 2014. From 2012 to 2019, he was Lecturer in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College in Salisbury, UK. He currently works for the UK’s National Health Service.

“What do we want?” –– “The future of theology”. “When do we want it?” ––– “Now…”

Beyond the Analogical Imagination: The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy is a recently published collection of essays that explore and develop the vision of the American theologian David Tracy. In his contribution, Barnabas Palfrey, one of the volumes editors, introduces some of the major themes of Tracy’s work that tries to offer new ways of thinking to respond to the challenges that both society and theology are facing today.