John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration

Authors

Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1-1996

Publication Information

63 New Oxford Rev., no. 1, Jan.–Feb. 1996, at 31 (book review).

Abstract

John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration. By Keith J. Pavlischek. Thomas Jefferson University Press. 290 pages. $22.50.

Keith Pavlischek's valuable book advances the Murray discussion right where Murray's writings most repay careful reading: religious liberty. Pavlischek, an evangelical Protestant, analyzes Murray's published and unpublished writings on religious liberty, and examines his role in the drafting and revision of Vatican II's Dignitatis Humanae. Pavlischek notes that Murray was not entirely pleased with DH. But Pavlischek's is the best discussion of just how the moral-theological defense of religious freedom advanced by the French prevailed over Murray's view that a doctrine of limited, constitutional government be the "juridical" centerpiece of the argument.

Recommended Citation

Gerard V. Bradley, John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration, 63 New Oxford Rev., no. 1, Jan.–Feb. 1996, at 31 (book review)..
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