{"id":1405,"date":"2024-02-01T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religion\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:39:41","slug":"tracy-thomas-j-emeritus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/tracy-thomas-j-emeritus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy, Thomas J. (Emeritus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale; B.A., St. Olaf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/files\/2022\/02\/Tracy.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1190 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Professor Tracy specializes in Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and Applied Ethics.  Professor Tracy\u2019s research focuses on issues in philosophy of religion and theology, and to a lesser degree, on topics in applied ethics, particularly medical ethics and the morality of warfare.\u00a0 His published work has dealt with philosophical questions raised by the classical conception of God in Western religions.\u00a0 He has written on the problem of evil, on the concept of God as an agent who acts in the events of history, and on the relation between these classical issues in philosophical theology and contemporary developments in the natural sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale; B.A., St. Olaf Professor Tracy specializes in Theology, Philosophy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}