Word: pluralistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that kind of argument, Murray may be counted on. At present, he sees not even a "common universe of discourse." The various groups in the pluralist society do not share one another's premises or vocabulary so that only confusion, not real disagreement, results: "Disagreement is not an easy thing to reach." If anyone can help U.S. Catholics and their non-Catholic countrymen toward the disagreement that precedes understanding-John Courtney Murray...
...critics in his own faith have occasionally held him to be more American than Catholic. Without representing an ' official position-and without running counter to it-he is now telling his fellow Catholics that they must become more intellectually aware of their ' coexistence'' in a pluralist, heavily Protestant society. But not even remotely is he trying to trim Catholicism to any other faith, or to the absence of faith. In his view, Catholics can make a major contribution-perhaps the decisive contribution-to an American society in spiritual crisis. His terms may startle some non-Catholics...
...Commonwealth. American pluralist society was a new kind of commonwealth-a nation under God but forcing no one to worship in a particular manner, not because religion was considered unimportant or merely a private affair, but because it was thought that God is best honored by free men. As Roger Williams wrote: "There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship . . . Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks ... I affirm that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges-that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks...