The John Courtney Murray Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America, named after John Courtney Murray, the great American theologian known for his work on religious liberty.
2016: Orlando O. Espín
2015: Joseph A. Komonchak
2014: John T. Pawlikowski
2013: Anne E. Patrick
2012: Terrence W. Tilley
2011: James A. Coriden
2010: Peter C. Phan
2009: David Bakewell Burrell
2008: Lisa Sowle Cahill
2007: Virgilio Elizondo
2006: Sandra M. Schneiders
2005: Robert Schreiter
2004: Elizabeth A. Johnson
2003: Michael A. Fahey
2002: Kenan Osborne
2001: Agnes Cunningham
2000: Michael J. Buckley
1999: Ladislas Orsy
1998: David Hollenbach, S.J.
1997: Anne Carr
1996: David N. Power
1995: John T. & Denise Carmody
1994: Francis A. Sullivan
1993: Kilian P. McDonnell
1992: Margaret A. Farley
1991: Thomas F. O’Meara
1990: Frederick R. McManus
1989: Patrick Granfield
1988: The Most Rev. Richard J. Sklba
1987: Walter H. Principe
1986: Gregory Baum
1985: Zachary J. Hayes
1984: Monika Hellwig
1983: William J. Hill
1982: George J. Dyer
1981: Gerard S. Sloyan
1980: David W. Tracy
1979: Bernard Cooke
1978: Edward Kilmartin
1977: Frederick E. Crowe
1976: Richard. P. McBrien
1975: Carl J. Peter
1974: George H. Tavard
1973: Bernard J.F. Lonergan
1972: Charles E. Curran
Many recipients of the award have been criticized by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or US Bishops' Conference Committee on Doctrine, including Richard McBrien, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Phan, Margaret Farley. and Charles Curran. The main reason for the criticism was an alleged lack of conformity to the fullness of Catholic orthodoxy.
