<i>Beyond the Analogical Imagination: The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy,</i> ed. BarnabasPalfrey and AndreasTelser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiii + 262 pp.

Deemed the most prominent Catholic theologian in North America in the last halfcentury, David Tracy also engaged other Christian traditions and inter-religious and secular thought.However, the theological potency of his work has often been lost in simplistic treatments of his "method of correlation," usually based on a few pages in Blessed Rage for Order (1975). 1 As a corrective, this volume introduces readers to motifs in his next book, The Analogical Imagination (1981), and ways they have been developed in recent publications (e.g., in the two-volume collection of essays, Filaments and Fragments [2000]). 2 The editors invited an array of authors-representing four continents, six mother tongues, and a "mix of ages"-to contribute chapters that explore themes in Tracy's work related to their own "contexts and concerns" (1).The resulting volume consists of three main sections ("Theology and Culture," "Public and Beyond," and "Church and World"), each with three chapters; it ends with two contributions from Tracy (a response and a previously unpublished essay) and a concluding postscript.The first chapter by Gaspar Martinez (from Basque Country) deserves the most attention.Considered by Tracy to be the best rendering "of what I have tried to do over many years," it provides "an exceptionally rich and complex interpretation" of the major moments in his oeuvre (211).Most significantly, Martinez locates Tracy's work within a "grace-nature-grace" trajectory that moves from "grace" (original in creation) to "nature" (creation and fall) and finally to "renewed grace" (as redemption in view of eschatological fulfillment) (32).Tracy's "theology-in-culture," he maintains, is foundationally "Catholic and Thomist"; its analogical paradigm presupposes "an unbreakable bridge (no matter how narrow and shaky) between God and creation" (32).Moreover, Tracy's "inculturated theology-of-hope"-that is, his "naming God 'in our times'"is, in the last analysis, "Theo-logy" in a twofold sense: as theo-logy, it presupposes that God's eternal Logos is made flesh in Jesus the Christ; as theo-logy, it assumes that the human logos, in spite of sin and suffering, can never be separated from God (40).Early influences in Tracy nurtured this nature-grace sensibility.Classically formed in the rich traditions of post-Augustinian theology, spirituality, and metaphysical