Renowned theologian Professor David Tracy from the University of Chicago will deliver two lectures at the University of Glasgow on Monday 23 November.

Prof Tracy is Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies, and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions at Chicago.

The lectures, entitled: ‘Simone Weil: Mask and Person’, and ‘Western Hermeneutics and Inter-Religious Dialogue’, which is an Inter Faith Week Public Lecture, will be held at 3.15pm and 6pm respectively in Lecture Theatre A of the Boyd Orr Building.

An ordained priest himself, Prof Tracy was born in New York in 1939 and became a renowned Catholic teacher and theologian receiving his degree and doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1964 and 1969 respectively.

An author of several books on theology, he taught at the Catholic University of America before taking up his current position at the University of Chicago in 1985.

For more information contact Professor Werner Jeanrond on w.jeanrond@divinity.arts.gla.ac.uk or 0141 330 5053.

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For more information contact Stuart Forsyth in the University of Glasgow Media Relations Office on 0141 330 4831 or email s.forsyth@admin.gla.ac.uk

First published: 20 November 2009