O'Brien skillfully explains the nineteenth-century papal rejection of the American proposal of church-state separation...[he] raises the question of how much the Cold War context of the 1950s with its pro-American, anti-Communist, context influenced Murray's ideas and, further more, whether such theories remain valid today. -- Kevin B. Fagan, California State University, San Luis Obispo, California Journal of Church & State His initial chapters on Americanism and Roman Catholic Anticommunism are superior to the matched chapters on Murray's own version of them. -- J. Leon Hooper, S.J., Woodstock Theological Center Horizons O'Brien's worthwhile study of John Courtney Murray's impact upon his Church and nation posits...challenges...to the sometimes glib canonization of Murray's thought [that] merit serious consideration. -- James P. Flint, Benedictine University Journal Of Ecclesiastical History
