RT Review
T1 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
JF Journal of law and religion
VO 37
IS 3
SP 519
OP 529
A1 Faggioli, Massimo 1970-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819882020
AB 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.
K1 Catholic concept of society
K1 Catholic concept of state
K1 Catholic Social Thought
K1 Vatican II
K1 Political Theology
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1017/jlr.2022.36