Transatlantic Catholic Gap: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and John Courtney Murray on State and Society - Discussed: Religion, Law, and Democracy: Selected Writings. By Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 480. $ 65.00 (cloth); Oxford Scholarship Online by subscription (digital). ISBN: 9780198818632. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818632.001.0001
In comparing the works of two major Catholic thinkers, John Courtney Murray (1904-1967) and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019), one finds an example of the divergences between European-continental Catholic and US Catholic concepts of the state and society. This divergence has become more evident...
| Subtitles: | "Book Review Symposium: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Religion, Law, and Democracy" |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 519-529 |
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Catholic concept of society
B Book review B Catholic Social Thought B Vatican II B Catholic concept of state B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | In comparing the works of two major Catholic thinkers, John Courtney Murray (1904-1967) and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019), one finds an example of the divergences between European-continental Catholic and US Catholic concepts of the state and society. This divergence has become more evident in the context of the rise of American Catholics in politics and in the context of the crisis of the post-World War II liberal political order, but they have been at the heart of different Catholic intellectual traditions for quite some time. A comparative analysis of Murray and Böckenförde helps to explain the role of US Catholicism in the crisis of American democracy and the complexity of the reception of Vatican II in political theology in different Catholic Churches around the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2022.36 |