John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation

by Hunt, Robert P.; Grasso, Kenneth L.

• ISBN13: 9780802805386
• ISBN10: 0802805388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Table of Contents

Introduction
Confessional Perspectives on the Murray Project
Democracy, Desperately Dry	p. 3
The Contribution of John Courtney Murray, S.J.: A Catholic Perspective	p. 19
John Courtney Murray, S.J.: A Jewish Appraisal	p. 44
Murray and the American Experiment
John Courtney Murray and the Public Philosophy	p. 67
We Held These Truths: The Transformation of American Pluralism and the Future of American Democracy	p. 89
Murray's Natural-Law Articulation of the American Proposition	p. 116
Animadversions on John Courtney Murray's Political Ontology	p. 135
Murray and the Contemporary Public Argument
Religious Freedom: John Courtney Murray and Vatican II	p. 167
Beyond Murray's Articles of Peace and Faith	p. 181
Murray on Economics: Liberal or Conservative?	p. 205
Murray, American Pluralism, and the Abortion Controversy	p. 228
Moral Orthodoxy and the Procedural Republic	p. 249
Epilogue: The Future of the John Courtney Murray Project	p. 273
About the Contributors	p. 297
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