Research Catalog

Title

John Courtney Murray in a Cold War context / Thomas W. O'Brien.

Author

O'Brien, Thomas W.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 170 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

John Courtney Murray, "arguably the most influential American Catholic theologian of the last century," was foundationally influenced in his thinking by the Cold War ideology of anti-communism and Americanism, according to O'Brien (Catholic social thought, DePaul U.). Murray's Cold War ideology, he suggests, is partly responsible for the form of Murray's theological work on the Catholic natural law tradition, historical consciousness and the development of doctrine, inter-creed cooperation and ecumenism, and religious liberties. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Subject

• Murray, John Courtney
• Catholic Church > United States
• Cold War
• Americanism (Catholic controversy)
• Church and state > Catholic Church

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The world in conflict -- The economy -- Catholics in America -- Murray's life and career before the Cold War -- 1. Murray's Americanist context -- 2. Murray's Americanism -- Murray's idealized reading of American history -- The natural law and the Americanist consensus -- 3. Murray's anticommunist context -- Nineteenth century Catholic anticommunism -- Twentieth century Catholic anticommunism -- The 1930s -- Murray's immediate anticommunist context -- 4. Murray's anticommunism -- Communist dogma and American policy -- Evaluation -- 5. The natural law -- Murray's Thomistic fundamental -- An Americanized Thomism: Murray's hybrid natural law -- The natural law and politics -- Evaluation -- 6. Historical consciousness -- Americanism and the historical hermeneutic -- Evaluation -- 7. The breadth of Murray's Americanism -- Intercredal cooperation -- Church and state -- Religious liberty -- Evaluation -- 8. Murray's social ethics -- Economics -- A new world order -- Militarism and nuclear war -- 9. Conclusions -- Evaluation of Murray's work in general.

ISBN

0761828087

LCCN

^^2003117169

OCLC

• 55689566
• SCSB-11304840

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library