The Faraway Land: Dignitatis Humanae, John Courtney Murray's "We Hold These Truths", and Religious Liberty in Pluralist Democracies
'The Faraway Land' places John Courtney Murray’s Vatican II work in the fuller context of his political analysis of democracy and the Catholic faith. When he wrote Dignitatis Humanae for Vatican II, Murray had previously written essays compiled into his seminal book, We Hold These Truths,...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Louvain studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-142 |
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Murray, John Courtney 1904-1967
/ Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt), Dignitatis humanae
/ Pluralistic society
/ Religious freedom
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| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Church and state
United States
B United States 1st-10th Amendments Constitution B Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965) Dignitatis humanae B Peer reviewed B Freedom Of Religion United States B Murray, John Courtney, 1904-1967 B Law and ethics B Pluralism Cultural |
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| Summary: | 'The Faraway Land' places John Courtney Murray’s Vatican II work in the fuller context of his political analysis of democracy and the Catholic faith. When he wrote Dignitatis Humanae for Vatican II, Murray had previously written essays compiled into his seminal book, We Hold These Truths, in which he demonstrated consistencies between American constitutional protections for religious liberty and Catholicism. In Vatican II and in his book, Murray fleshes out political and legal implications of the principle that immunity from religious coercion is a civil right. The paper explores how Murray’s understanding of religious freedom in the two works addresses the divisive and unavoidable issue of conflict arising in democracies that must protect differing moral and religious views and shows how protection of religious liberty functions to keep moral truth in the public dialogue around law and politics. Thus, Murray’s work on Vatican II must not be forgotten because it helps to reconcile the dilemma of civil unity and disunity in modern democracy with the Church’s notion of revealed truth that is held to be binding on anyone who grasps and understands it |
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| ISSN: | 0024-6964 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Louvain studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/LS.40.2.3220910 |