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We Hold These Truths - Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (Hardcover)
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We Hold These Truths - Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (Hardcover)
Series: A Sheed & Ward Classic
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The 1960 publication of We Hold These Truths marked a significant
event in the history of modern American thought. Since that time,
Sheed & Ward has kept the book in print and has published
several studies of John Courtney Murray's life and work. We are
proud to present a new edition of this classic text, which features
a comprehensive introduction by Peter Lawler that places Murray in
the context of Catholic and American history and thought while
revealing his relevance today. From the new Introduction by Peter
Lawler: The Jesuit John Courtney Murray (1904-67) was, in his time,
probably the best known and most widely respected American Catholic
writer on the relationship between Catholic philosophy and theology
and his country's political life. The highpoint of his influence
was the publication of We Hold These Truths in the same year as an
election of our country's first Catholic president. Those two
events were celebrated by a Time cover story (December 12, 1960) on
Murray's work and influence. The story's author, Protestant Douglas
Auchincloss, reported that it was 'The most relentlessly
intellectual cover story I've done.' His amazingly wide ranging and
dense-if not altogether accurate-account of Murray's thought was
crowned with a smart and pointed conclusion: 'If anyone can help
U.S. Catholics and their non-Catholic countrymen toward the
disagreement that precedes understanding-John Courtney Murray can.'
. . . Murray's work, of course, is treated with great respect and
has had considerable influence, but now it's time to begin to think
of him as one of America's very few genuine political philosophers.
His disarmingly lucid and accessible prose has caused his book to
be widely cited and celebrated, but it still is not well
understood. It is both praised and blamed for reconciling Catholic
faith with the fundamental premises of American political life. It
is praised by liberals for paving the way for Vatican II's embrace
of the American idea of religious liberty, and it is blamed by
conservatives and traditionalists for obscuring the real conflicts
between Catholicism and 'Americanism.' Both the liberal praise and
the conservative blame are somewhat misguided. The last thing
Murray wanted to do is bring the church up-to-date with the latest
currents in American thought. He wanted to show how distinctively
Catholic thought could illuminate the authentic American idea of
liberty. . . . We Hold These Truths at least offers the hope that
Catholic natural-law thinking can bring together the religious
devotion and moral concerns of the evangelicals with the devotion
to reason and concern for scientific truth of the secular
humanists. It offers the hope of getting Americans really arguing
again, of holding again the truth that they are capable of engaging
in the dialogue about the human good that is the foundation of any
civil and civilized moral and political life. Peter Augustine
Lawler is professor of political science at Berry College in
Georgia.
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