Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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 and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
While Murray concedes that natural law has been used vaguely, naively and repressively, he sees far greater danger in the "subtle and seductive system" by which all ethics are considered relative...
...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 of America. The subject at issue: Murray's contention that the Vatican should give its formal blessing to the U.S. pluralist system as a new, permanent and viable kind of relationship between religion and government. The learned, footnote-stippled discussion ended when Murray was advised by his order that henceforth he would have to clear all his writings on this particular subject with Jesuit headquarters in Rome...
...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 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...
...Pennsylvania, which owns 28% (the largest single block) of the N. & W. and 99% Of the Wabash, has already blessed the merger. So have the Nickel Plate and N. & W. directors. The plan may be the first step in a Pennsylvania scheme to set up a huge eastern rail system that it will later try to join...