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John Courtney Murray

1904-1967 · American Jesuit theologian who wrote on religious liberty and American democracy

About John Courtney Murray

John Courtney Murray was an American Jesuit theologian whose work on religious liberty, public consensus, and constitutional democracy influenced Catholic thought before and during Vatican II. He wrote as both a theologian and a close reader of the American experiment.

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We Hold These Truths

John Courtney Murray

1960 · Postwar Contemporary · Essays

We Hold These Truths collects John Courtney Murray's essays on the American constitutional experiment, natural law, religious liberty, pluralism, and the conditions of civil conversation. Murray argues that the American order depends on moral truths that public argument must continue to articulate, not merely procedural agreement or private preference.

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