From James Madison to William Lee Miller
John Courtney Murray and Baptist Theory of the First Amendment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5890181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Hughson (Marquette University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-37 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/37.1.15 |
| OpenAlex | W1995440706 |
| Language | EN |
This essay seeks a way from factual to collaborative pluralism in church-state relations. It accepts a bold and hopeful prospect outlined by William Lee Miller. "Suppose," said Miller, that "Catholicism needs to be itself affected and modified by its experience in American 'Protestant' democracy, a democracy that, with all its faults, has in it social goods that it does seem unlikely an originally Catholic culture would have produced." This did not pre-judge ecclesiological doctrines as the early John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967) might have feared. Rather, Miller offered an historically-conscious evaluation of communal practices, a manner of judgment Murray entered into more and more as he examined church-state relations and religious liberty.
Art · Associate editor · First amendment · Law and economics · Library science · Miller · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Supreme court · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Computer Science · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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