John Courtney Murray in a Cold War Context

Thomas W. O'Brien is Assistant Professor of Catholic Social Thought in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. The author holds a Ph.D. in Moral Theology from the University of St. Michael's College (University of Toronto).

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Murray's Americanist ContextChapter 5 Murray's AmericanismChapter 6 Murray's Anticommunist ContextChapter 7 Murray's AnticommunismChapter 8 The Natural LawChapter 9 Historical ConsciousnessChapter 10 The Breadth of Murray's AmericanismChapter 11 Murray's Social EthicsChapter 12 ConclusionsChapter 13 NotesChapter 14 Author BioChapter 15 Index

O'Brien skillfully explains the nineteenth-century papal rejection of the American proposal of church-state separation...[he] raises the question of how much the Cold War context of the 1950s with its pro-American, anti-Communist, context influenced Murray's ideas and, further more, whether such theories remain valid today.