Nat Tracy - Spiritual Genius

1. Extensive Review in the Howard Payne University Link (Newsletter Magazine) where Nat Tracy taught for twenty-five years. Students who sat under him for those years will want to know about his life and have his theology in written form. Professors in the Departments of Bible and Philosophy of Religion possibly will be able to utilize the book as a text or supplementary text in their classes. The University Bookstore can stock books. 2. Due to the HPU Chancellor’s having written the Foreword to the book, I will more than likely be asked to lecture to the student body regarding the Tracy book and his theology. 3. Reviews or advertisements will prevail in the following newspapers: The Brownwood Bulletin, newspaper in Brownwood, Texas where Dr. Tracy taught and was well known. The Tulia Herald, the newspaper in Tracy’s hometown, where the Tracy family and his wife’s family, the McFarling family were prominent and widely known and respected. One of the Herald’s photos appears in the book. The Fort Worth Star Telegram, where the author of the book attended seminary and received two graduate degrees. The Dallas Morning News, where the author now resides. The Roswell Daily Record, where family of the author lives may produce a write-up about the book. 4. Brochure Preparation and Mail-outs: The author is locating the names of seminaries and Bible colleges in the U. S. and their heads of Theology and Philosophy departments to whom brochures will be mailed. A list of ministers in the Baptist Ministerial Associations in Brownwood, Texas, Fort Worth Texas, Dallas, Texas, and Tulia, Texas can receive brochures. The directors of these Associations can be given a copy of the book, which they may find relevant enough to recommend to the Association constituents. A packet of brochures will be available for the First Baptist Church of Brownwood, Texas where Dr. and Mrs. Tracy were members and where Dr. Tracy served as an associate minister after retiring from university teaching. A copy of the book supplied to the pastor. 5. State Baptist Church Papers, one in every state, may be willing to review the book and some may be utilized for advertisements if reviews are not permissible. The one for Texas, for instance is The Baptist Standard. We utilize Baptist emphasis because Dr. Tracy was Southern Baptist and taught in a Baptist university. In each of these states, church members receive monthly copies of the state paper free of charge. 6. The author’s speaking engagements will supply books for sale. 7. The author also prints calling cards and distributes them spontaneously in his daily encounters. 8. Working toward a new author’s website. 9. Pray!

Nat Tracy-Spiritual Genius is slightly biographical of a beloved university professor of twenty-five years duration, depicting his impacting spiritual insights, ministry, heralded philosophical posture, Christian world-view, and phenomenal theology.Nat Tracy-Spiritual Genius augments a tribute to a great man as contributing to education in general and especially to his genius with respect to his philosophical and theological world-views. It conveys his life, marking his childhood, education, early adulthood and vocation, first as pastor and ultimately as university professor. These include his commendation as chaplain in the United States Armed Forces during World War II, his successful pastorates, remarkable teaching tenure of twenty-five years, and founding and directing of the Conference on Spiritual Renewal. Precepts in his Christian world-view won him marked approbation by his students. Sixteen chapters convey his remarkable biblical insight that borders on theological genius unlike anything in print. These include three chapters on God, four on Christ, two on Man and the problem of Sin, two on the Christian Life, three on the Church, and two final chapters on Last Things, which deal with the Consummation and what we should do in light of the truths that have been presented throughout the book.