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Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism

by John Courtney Murray

Edited by J. Leon Hooper, S.J.

© 1993 Westminster/John Knox Press
All rights reserved

This book can be ordered from the Woodstock Theological Center for $15.99 plus $2 for postage and handling.

John Courtney Murray is renowned for his contributions to American ethical debates and well known for his defense of civil religious freedom. He strongly felt that religion should be taught in public schools and universities. Murray had a decisive influence on juridical, political, and social theories.

This intriguing volume includes, in addition to two of Murray's most important statements on religious freedom, two essays newly made available to the reading public: one on religious freedom originally suppressed by the Vatican and published here for the first time, and a discussion of human dignity--how it is defined and how it functions as the philosophical foundation of religious freedom--newly translated into English. This fascinating collection will help readers look back at past struggles over religious liberty and forward to dilemmas presently facing the church.

J. Leon Hooper, S.J., is Senior Research Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Contents

General Introduction by J. Leon Hooper, S.J.

1. Leo XIII and Pius XII: Government and the Order of Religion

2. The Problem of Religious Freedom

3. The Issue of Church and State at Vatican Council II

4. Arguments for the Human Right to Religious Freedom

Works by John Courtney Murray

Works on John Courtney Murray

See also:

• To order books from the Woodstock Center
• Publications from Projects of the Woodstock Theological Center
• Bernard Lonergan, S.J., and John Courtney Murray, S.J.
• John Courtney Murray: Theologian in Conflict, Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S., (New York: Paulist Press, 1975)
• Religious Freedom: 1965-1975. A Symposium on a Historic Document, edited by Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., Woodstock Studies 1, Paulist Press, 1976.
• The Ethics of Discourse: The Social Philosophy of John Courtney Murray, J. Leon Hooper, S.J., Georgetown University Press, 1986.
• Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray, J. Leon Hooper, S.J., Georgetown University Press, 1994.
• John Courtney Murray and the Growth of Tradition, J. Leon Hooper, S.J., Sheed & Ward, 1996.
• Citizen Murray by J. Leon Hooper, S.J. Boston College magazine, Winter 1995