Farrell, Thomas2018-08-012018-08-012018-08N/Ahttps://hdl.handle.net/11299/198690My 7,300-word essay opens with a short introductory section, which is then followed by four lengthy subsections.My 7,300-word essay involves discussing John Courtney Murray's posthumously published book Bridging the Sacred and the Secular, on the one hand, and, on the other, Walter J. Ong's thought. John Courtney Murray, S.J., died in 1967 at the age of 63. He was an American Jesuit theologian and public intellectual. In 1960, he published the book We Hold These Truths, which garnered a cover story about him in Time (dated December 12, 1960). When the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) in the Roman Catholic Church met, Murray was influential in drafting Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Freedom.enJohn Courtney Murray, Walter J. Ong, Vatican II, Declaration on Religious FreedomScholarly Text or Essay