Send Lazarus

Matthew T. Eggemeier is Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of A Sacramental-Prophetic Vision: Christian Spirituality in a Suffering World and Against Empire: Ekklesial Resistance and the Politics of Radical Democracy.Peter Joseph Fritz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of Karl Rahner's Theological Aesthetics and Freedom Made Manifest: Rahner's Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics.

• List of Abbreviations ixIntroduction 1Introducing Neoliberalism, 2 • Catholic Critique of Neoliberalism, 4 • Chapter Outlines, 7 • Send Lazarus, 11Part I : Catholic Social Thought and the Economy1 Catholic Social Thought against Economism 15Modern Catholic Social Thought, 17 • John Paul II onEconomism, 20 • Benedict XVI: Against an ImpersonalEconomy, 33 • Francis: No to a Faceless Economy, 46 •Papal Continuity, 56Part II: Neoliberalism2 Neoliberal Capitalism 65Neoliberalism as PoliticalEconomy, 66 • Neoliberalism as Common Sense, 76 • Ethos of Mercilessness, 863 Sacrifice, Race, and Indifference 94Sacrifice Zones, Earth, and Slums, 96 • Racial Neoliberalism,Mass Incarceration, and Mass Deportation, 110 • Neoliberalism as Culture of Indifference, 123Part III: Catholic Mercy in a Neoliberal Age4 A Theology of Mercy 133Trinity, Mystery, and Mercy, 134 • Anthropology, Ecclesiology,and Mercy, 144 • The Works and the Politics of Mercy, 1535 The Politics of Mercy against Neoliberal Sacrifice 164Universal Destination of Goods, 165 • Visit the Sick, 167 •Give Food, Drink, and Clothing, 175 • Abolitionism, 180 •Ransom the Captive, 188 • Welcome the Stranger, 195Conclusion: For Holistic Mercy 205Acknowledgments 209Notes 211Bibliography 245Index 269