Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray (Moral Traditions series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878405712 ISBN 13: 9780878405718

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This collection brings together for the first time the theological essays of a 20th-century philosopher renowned for his defense of civil religious freedom. In this volume of essays, previously scattered among various periodicals over the course of thirty eyars, J. Leon Hooper, SJ, presents a selection of Murray's theological writings that outlines and highlights the integrity of Murray's moves toward a public theological discourse.

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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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0878405712
• ISBN 13: 9780878405718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Hooper J. Leon