John Courtney Murray and Postconciliar Faith

Theological Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 480-508

  Hughson, Thomas ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/004056399705800305     Document Type: Review

References (100)

1. See H. George Anderson et al., ed., Justification by Faith: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VII (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985).
2. "Faith: New Testament," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. Daniel Noel Freedman [New York: Doubleday, 1992] 2.749-58, at 754).
3. "Virtue," in Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology 6 (New York: Herder & Herder, 1970) 337-347, at 338.
4. Avery Dulles, The Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith (New York: Oxford University, 1994).
5. Jose Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994).
6. John Courtney Murray, "Matthias Joseph Scheeben's Doctrine on Supernatural, Divine Faith: A Critical Exposition," in The Doctoral Dissertation of John Courtney Murray: Matthias Scheeben on Faith, ed. Thomas Hughson (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1987).
7. John Courtney Murray, The Problem of God: Yesterday and Today (New Haven: Yale University, 1964);
8. In addition to the works already mentioned, see "The Root of Faith: The Doctrine of M. J. Scheeben," TS 9 (1948) 20-46;
9. The Problem of Religious Freedom, Woodstock Papers 7 (Westminster, Md.: Newman, 1965)
10. earlier, shorter form, "The Problem of Religious Freedom," TS 25 (1964) 503-75;
11. "Freedom, Authority, Community," America 115 (December 3, 1966) 734-41;
12. "The Status of the Nicene Creed as Dogma," Chicago Studies 5 (1966) 65-80;
13. "The Danger of the Vows: An Encounter with Earth, Woman, and the Spirit," Woodstock Letters 116 (1967) 421-27;
14. "Freedom in the Age of Renewal," American Benedictine Review 18 (1967) 319-24;
15. "A Will to Community," in Theological Freedom and Social Responsibility, ed. S. F. Bayne (New York: Seabury, 1967) 111-16.
16. David Tracy, Blessed Rage For Order (New York: Crossroad, 1975)
17. The Analogical Imagination (New York: Crossroad, 1981);
18. Johann Baptist Metz, Faith in History and Theology: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1980);
19. Gerald O'Collins and René Latourelle, ed., Problems and Perspectives of Fundamental Theology (New York: Paulist, 1980);
20. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Foundational Theology: Jesus and the Church (New York: Crossroad, 1984)
21. "Fundamental Theology," in New Dictionary of Theology, ed. Joseph Komonchak et al. (Wilmington, Del.: Glazier, 1989) 408-11;
22. Avery Dulles, The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System (New York: Crossroad, 1992).
23. For an overview and argument for a specific subject matter, method, and identity, see René Latourelle, "Fundamental Theology: History and Specific Character," in The Dictionary of Fundamental Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1994) 324-32.
24. John OTtonnell, "Faith," in New Dictionary of Theology 375-86;
25. Monika Hellwig, "A History of the Concept of Faith," in Handbook of Faith, ed. James Michael Lee (Birmingham, Ala.: Religious Education, 1990) 3-23;
26. Avery Dulles, "Faith and Revelation," in Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives 1, ed. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and John P. Galvin (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991) 89-128;
27. Gilles Langevin, "Faith," in Dictionary of Fundamental Theology 309-15;
28. J. Leon Hooper, "Theological Sources of John Courtney Murray's Ethics," TS 57 (1996) 19-45.
29. See Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S., John Courtney Murray: Theologian in Conflict (New York: Paulist, 1975)
30. Michael J. Schuck, "John Courtney Murray's Problematic Interpretations of Leo XIII and the American Founders," The Thomist 55 (1991) 592-612;
31. William Gould, "The Challenge of Liberal Political Culture in the Thought of John Courtney Murray," Communio 19 (1992) 113-44;
32. David L. Schindler, "Religious Freedom, Truth, and American Liberalism: Another Look at John Courtney Murray," Communio 21 (1994) 696-741.
33. "Religion and Liberal Culture," in Religion, Public Life and the American Polity, ed. Luis E. Lugo [Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1994] 201-21, at 209.
34. John Tropman, The Catholic Ethic in American Society: An Exploration of Values, foreword by Rembert Weakland, O.S.B. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995).
35. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, updated ed. [Berkeley: University of California, 1996] x).
36. "Catholic Social Thought, the City, and Liberal America," in Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy, ed. David Hollenbach and Bruce Douglass [Cambridge; Cambridge University, 1994] 151-71, at 154).
37. Schindler, "Religious Freedom, Truth, and American Liberalism" 705.
38. We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition [New York: Sheed & Ward, 1960] 143-54.
39. Schindler, "Religious Freedom, Truth and American Liberalism" 734.
40. "Vatican II and the Encounter between Catholicism and Liberalism," in Catholicism and Liberalism 76-99, at 89).
41. On individualism and communitarianism in political theory see, e.g., Michael Walzer, "The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism," Political Theory 18 (February, 1990) 6-23;
42. Amy Gutmann, "Communitarian Critics of Liberalism," Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (1985) 308-22. See also Schuck, That They Be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals 1740-1989 (Washington: Georgetown University, 1991);
43. David Hollenbach, "The Common Good in the Postmodern Epoch: What Role for Theology?" in Religion, Ethics, and the Common Good, ed. James Donohue and M. Theresa Moser, R.S.C.J., The Annual Publication of the College Theology Society 41 (Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third, 1996) 3-22.
44. Here, too, the essays in Catholicism and Liberalism and in Celebration and Challenge: One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Teaching, ed. John Coleman (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991).
45. Harvey Egan, "Rahner's Mystical Theology," in Theology and Discovery: Essays in Honor of Karl Rahner, S.J., ed. William Kelly (Milwaukee: Marquette University, 1980);
46. Karl Rahner in Dialogue: Conversations and Interviews 1965-1982, ed. Paul Imhof et al. (New York: Crossroad, 1986);
47. Leo O'Donovan, "Orthopraxis and Theological Method: Rahner," in Catholic Theological Society of America, Proceedings 35 (1980) 47-65;
48. Paillette Skiba, "Karl Rahner's Transcendental Christology: A Resource for Catholic Social Teaching?" (unpublished dissertation, Marquette University, 1997).
49. Murray meditated on the risk essential to this kind of free self-disposition in "The Danger of the Vows: An Encounter with Earth, Woman and the Spirit, , , Woodstock Letters 116 (1967) 421-27;
50. Avery Dulles, "The Ecclesial Dimension of Faith," Communio 22 (1995) 418-32.
51. "Works by John Courtney Murray, S. J.," in J. Leon Hooper, Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray, S.J. (Washington: Georgetown University, 1994) 343-55.
52. See, The Doctoral Dissertation of John Courtney Murray 22-26.
53. Murray, We Hold These Truths 309.
54. For the debate over Locke's influence on the founding of America, see Jerome Huyler, Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1995);
55. The Construction of a Christian Culture" (1940), in Hooper, Bridging the Sacred and the Secular 101-23, at 111.
56. J. Leon Hooper, The Ethics of Discourse: The Social Philosophy of John Courtney Murray (Washington: Georgetown University, 1986) 154.
57. We Hold These Truths 309.
58. See Charles Taylor, "Religion in a Free Society," in Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace, ed. James Davison Hunter and Os Guinness (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1990).
59. (Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith [Dei Filius], in The Decrees of Ecumenical Councils 2: Trent to Vatican II, ed. Norman P. Tanner [Washington: Georgetown University, 1990] 807).
60. Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation [Dei Verbum] no. 4, in Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Documents, gen. ed. Austin Flannery [Northport, N.Y.: Costello, 1988] 752).
61. For the texts of Scheeben that Murray considered, see the bibliography in The Doctoral Dissertation of John Courtney Murray 257-59.
62. Available now but not when Murray wrote in 1937 are The Mysteries of Christianity, trans. Cyril Vollert (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1946);
63. Nature and Grace, trans. Cyril Vollert (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1954);
64. Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Josef Höfer, Martin Grabmann et al., 8 vols. (Freiburg: Herder, 1949-67). Scholarship on Scheeben likewise has increased;
65. Eugen Paul, "Matthias Joseph Scheeben (1835-1888)," with bibliography, in Katholische Theologen Deutschlands im 19. Jahrhundert 2, ed. Heinrich Fries and Georg Schwaiger (Munich: Kösel, 1975);
66. Matthias Scheeben (Cologne: Sty-ria, 1976);
67. Karl-Heinz Minz, Pleroma Trinitatis: Die Trinitätstheologie bei Matthias Joseph Scheeben (Frankfurt: Lang, 1982).
68. Pierre Rousselot, S.J.; see the volume containing the two works of Rousselot, The Eyes of Faith, trans. Joseph Donceel, and his Answer to Two Attacks, trans. Avery Dulles (New York: Fordham University, 1990).
69. see John M. McDermott, Love and Understanding: The Relation of Will and Intellect in Pierre Rousselot's Christological Vision (Rome: Gregorian University, 1983).
70. See Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae 31: Faith (2a2ae, 1-7)
71. Latin text and English translation, éd. T. C. O'Brien (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1974).
72. See The Doctoral Dissertation of John Courtney Murray 236.
73. James A. Mohler, The Beginning of Eternal Life: The Dynamic Faith of Thomas Aquinas, Origins and Interpretation (New York: Philosophical Library, 1968) 147, no. 23.
74. For indications, see Murray, "Patristic Study," TS 9 (1948) 250-51;
75. Newman's University Sermons: Fifteen Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, 1826-1843 [London: SPCK, 1970] 236;
76. See The Doctoral Dissertation of John Courtney Murray 89 n. 19.
77. reproduced in J. Leon Hooper, ed., Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/Knox, 1993) 127-97.
78. see Flannery translation, Vatican Council II 799-812.
79. Murray, The Problem of God 120.
80. see, e.g., his Truth and Method (New York: Crossroad, 1982).
81. Langevin, Dictionary of Fundamental Theology 310.
82. "A New Phase in the Reception of Vatican II: Twenty Years of Interpretation of the Council," in The Reception of Vatican II, ed. Giuseppe Alberigo et al. [Washington: Catholic University of America, 1987] 27-43, at 34).
83. see Flannery translation, Vatican Council II 903-1001.
84. See Murray, "Religious Freedom and the Atheist," in Hooper, Bridging 255-65
85. "Theological Sources of John Courtney Murray's Ethics" 41.
86. "Le droit à Pincroyance," Relations [Montreal] 22 (April 1962) 91-92
87. Murray, "The Unbelief of the Christian," in Hooper, Bridging 272.
88. see The Problem of Religious Freedom 17-19.
89. Vatican II: We've Only Just Begun [New York: Crossroad, 1994] 8.
90. Vatican II: Image of God in Man (Rome: Urbaniana University, 1987) 188.
91. See Walter Kasper, "The Theological Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes," Communio 23 (1996) 129-40;
92. and David L. Schindler, "Christology and the Imago Dei: Interpreting Gaudium et Spes" Communio 23 (1996) 156-84.
93. Kasper, "The Theological Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes" 137.
94. Schindler, "Christology and the Imago Dei" 156-59.
95. Joseph Ratzinger, "The Dignity of the Human Person," in Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, ed. Herbert Vorgrimler, vol. 5 (London: Burns & Oates, 1969) 123.
96. Luis Ladaria, S.J., warns against restricting conciliar doctrine on humanity "in God's image" to a theology of creation alone, since as Irenaeus taught, "Adam does not explain Christ; Christ explains Adam." (humanity in the Light of Christ in the Second Vatican Council," in Vatican II Assessment and Perspectives: Twenty-five Years after (1962-1987), ed. René Latourelle [New York: Paulist, 1989] 386-401, at 390).
97. "Religious Freedom, Truth and American Liberalism" 704.
98. see The Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity, trans. William V. Dych (New York: Seabury, 1978).
99. Tertio millenio adveniente [Vatican City: Vatican City Press, 1994] nos. 35, 41;
100. The recent catechism incorporates conciliar affirmation of human dignity into its teaching on faith when it states that " 'believing' is a human act, conscious and free, corresponding to the dignity of the human person" (The Catechism of the Catholic Church no. 180 [Liguori, Mo.: Liguori, 1994] 48).