Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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(9 of 10) 19th Street, the son of a prosperous Scottish-born lawyer and an Irish mother -both born Catholics. "I have an idea that my father had been baptized but wandered from the church," says Murray. "But my mother was a practicing Catholic, and after their marriage he rallied...
After graduating from high school, where he specialized in debate and dramatics, John Murray abandoned his earlier aim to become a doctor and joined the Society of Jesus at 16. After taking his A.B. at Weston, Mass, and M.A. at Boston College, he taught for the order in the Philippines...
A Human Good. Murray gave his polemical proclivities a workout in the early '50s with a scholarly drumfire of debate in the pages of the monthly American Ecclesiastical Review with its editor, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, and Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of dogma at the Catholic University...
In his present book, carefully putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the...
Murray's good friend (and hot disputant), Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr, says warmly of him: "What makes Murray significant is that he thinks in terms of Catholic theology and the American tradition at the same time. He rejoices in being in the American tradition."