Winner of the Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award 2023Anna Rowlands offers a guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way these elements live together in community — most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891. Rowlands takes a fresh approach in weaving overviews of the central principles with the development of thinking on political community and democracy, migration, and integral ecology, and by considering the increasingly critical questions concerning the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. As such this book offers both an incisive overview of this distinctive body of Catholic political theology and a new and challenging contribution to the debate about the transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2021-12-02
Mått137 x 213 x 25 mm
Vikt477 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567242730
UtmärkelserWinner of Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award 2024 (UK)
Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.
IntroductionChapter 1The Emergence of Modern Catholic Social TeachingChapter 2 Human Dignity: philosophical and theological trajectoriesChapter 3 Human Dignity: and (forced) migrationChapter 4 Human Dignity: the question of social and structural sinChapter 5 The Common Good: the long tradition in contextChapter 6 The Common Good: in patristic and medieval contextChapter 7 The Common Good: the encyclical traditionChapter 8 The body politic and the political communityChapter 9 Subsidiarity: a principle of participation and social governanceChapter 10 Solidarity: a developing theoryChapter 11 The universal destination of goods: towards an integral ecology ConclusionBibliographyIndex
No one brings the worlds of social activism and the academy together with more energy, invention and style than Anna Rowlands. ... [The book] is a fluent and polyphonic introduction to the Catholic vision of the good life.