Bridging the Sacred and the Secular - Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray

In these explicitly theological writings, Murray sought to reintegrate the temporal and the spiritual.

About the author

John Courtney Murray, one of the century's foremost theologians, was the author of We Hold These Truths (Sheed & Ward, 1960), The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today (Yale University Press, 1964), and The Problem of Religious Freedom (The Newman Press, 1965).
J. Leon Hooper, SJ, is a senior research fellow at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He is the editor of Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993) and author of The Ethics of Discourse: The Social Philosophy of John Courtney Murray (Georgetown University Press, 1986).

Summary

John Courtney Murray, SJ (1904-1967), is most renowned for his ethical writings, which distinguish between the secular and the sacred, and for his defense of civil religious freedom based on natural law philosophy. This title presents a selection of Murray's theological writings.

Product details

• Authors: John C. Murray, John Courtney Murray
• Assisted by: J Leon Hooper (Editor), J. Leon Hooper (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780878405619
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-561-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Weight: 653 g
• Series: Moral Traditions Series; Moral Traditions and Moral Arg; Moral Traditions; Moral Traditions series; Moral Traditions and Moral Arg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy