The John Courtney Murray Award is the highest honor bestowed by the
Catholic Theological Society of America The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) is a professional association of Catholic theologians founded in 1946 to promote studies and research in theology within the Catholic tradition. Its members are primarily in the United States and C ...
, named after
John Courtney Murray
John Courtney Murray (September 12, 1904 – August 16, 1967) was an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, particularly focusing on the relationsh ...
, the great American theologian known for his work on religious liberty.
Winners
* 2021: Susan K. Wood, S.C.L
*2019:
James F. Keenan, S.J.
* 2018:
M. Shawn Copeland
Mary Shawn Copeland (born August 24, 1947), known professionally as M. Shawn Copeland, is a retired American womanist and Black Catholic theologian, and a former religious sister. She is professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College ...
* 2017:
Francis Xavier Clooney, S.J.
* 2016: Orlando O. Espín
* 2015: Joseph A. Komonchak
* 2014:
John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M.
* 2013: Anne E. Patrick, S.N.J.M.
* 2012: Terrence W. Tilley
* 2011: James A. Coriden
* 2010:
Peter C. Phan
* 2009: David Bakewell Burrell, C.S.C
* 2008:
Lisa Sowle Cahill
* 2007:
Virgilio Elizondo Virgilio P. Elizondo (August 28, 1935 – March 14, 2016) was a Mexican-American Catholic priest and community activist, who was also a leading scholar of liberation theology and Hispanic theology. He was widely regarded as "the father of U.S. Latin ...
* 2006:
Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M.
* 2005: Robert Schreiter, C.PP.S.
* 2004:
Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
* 2003: Michael A. Fahey, S.J.
* 2002: Kenan Osborne, O.F.M.
* 2001: Agnes Cunningham, S.S.C.M.
* 2000: Michael J. Buckley, S.J.
* 1999:
Ladislas Orsy, S.J.
* 1998:
David Hollenbach, S.J.
* 1997:
Anne Carr, B.V.M.
* 1996: David N. Power, O.M.I.
* 1995: John T. & Denise Carmody
* 1994:
Francis A. Sullivan, S.J.
* 1993:
Kilian P. McDonnell, O.S.B.
* 1992:
Margaret A. Farley, R.S.M.
* 1991: Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P.
* 1990:
Frederick R. McManus
Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923, Lynn, Massachusetts – died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Catholic Church, Catholic Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest and academic, who served as a peritus on the li ...
* 1989: Patrick Granfield, O.S.B.
* 1988:
The Most Rev. Richard J. Sklba
* 1987: Walter H. Principe, C.S.B.
* 1986:
Gregory Baum
Gerhard Albert Baum (June 20, 1923 – October 18, 2017), better known as Gregory Baum, was a German-born Canadian priest and theologian in the Catholic Church. He became known in North America and Europe in the 1960s for his work on ecumenism, ...
* 1985: Zachary J. Hayes, O.F.M.
* 1984:
Monika Hellwig
Monika Konrad Hildegard Hellwig (10 December 1929 – 30 September 2005) was a German-born British academic, author, educator and theologian, who spent much of her life in the United States. A former Religious Sister, she left her community to pur ...
* 1983: William J. Hill, O.P.
* 1982: George J. Dyer
* 1981: Gerard S. Sloyan
* 1980:
David W. Tracy
* 1979: Bernard Cooke
* 1978: Edward Kilmartin, S.J.
* 1977: Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
* 1976:
Richard. P. McBrien
* 1975: Carl J. Peter
* 1974:
George H. Tavard, A.A.
* 1973:
Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J.
* 1972:
Charles E. Curran
Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is an American moral theologian and Catholic priest. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.
Biography
Curran grew up in Roches ...
References
External links
Catholic Theological Society of America
Catholic ecclesiastical decorations
Awards established in 1972
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