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John Courtney Murray (1904–1967)

Autore di The Problem of God: Yesterday and Today

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A very interesting little set of lectures, the kind of thing I imagine would be almost impossible today. The blurb describes it as 'urbane,' and that's precisely right. Can you imagine anyone being described as urbane today, let alone a Jesuit?

Murray runs through how people see their relationship to God in the Old Testament, New Testament, the battles around the Nicean council, Thomism, and existentialism (broadly understood). He is as sympathetic to Sartre as he is to Arius as he is to Thomas as he is to Marx. It's almost as if he would prefer to engage in rational debate, rather than yell about DAMNED COMMUNISTS or, what's perhaps worse, yell about how he's engaging in rational debate. If only Murray were around to be sympathetic to Ben Shapiro and his kin, so that I could stop getting so irritated by him and them.… (altro)
 
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