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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Who Is Safe? It did not take the 1960 election to establish-though it well served to recall-what a unique encounter i diverse traditions is contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order...
(10 of 10) support it, is collapsing under the burden-"poor little conscience," says Murray. Only the monistic state threatens to remain. If this goes on, a spiritual vacuum will grow at the heart of life and into it will rush violence-"the mark of the Architect of Chaos, the...
In the considered view of the grave and learned man who wrote those words that is precisely what is happening to the U.S. John Courtney Murray sees his native America entering a new era of post-modern man" in a sorry state of ideological disarray that, unless repaired must doom...
But it may not go on. Few Protestants would accept Murray's notion of the fragility of the individual conscience-to them it is neither poor nor little, but under grace the indomitable center of faith. Yet among Protestants, and others, Murray discerns a sense that the "modern era...
It offers a major choice to man, says Murray. The choice is between the permanent "Christian revolution with all its hopes of freedom and justice" and the "reactionary counterrevolution" represented by rationalism. Man can either go on to a "new age of order," guided by the moral law, or he...