Catholic social teaching : a volume of scholarly essays /
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| Uniform title: | Essays. Selections |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 624 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law and Christianity Law and Christianity. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576677 |
| Summary: | Catholic social teaching (CST) refers to the corpus of authoritative ecclesiastical teaching, usually in the form of papal encyclicals, on social matters, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) and running through Pope Francis. CST is not a social science and its texts are not pragmatic primers for social activists. It is a normative exercise of Church teaching, a kind of comprehensive applied - although far from systematic - social moral theology. This volume is a scholarly engagement with this 130-year-old documentary tradition. Its twenty-three essays aim to provide a constructive, historically sophisticated, critical exegesis of all the major (and some of the minor) documents of CST. The volume's appeal is not limited to Catholics, or even just to those who embrace, or who are seriously interested in, Christianity. Its appeal is to any scholar interested in the history or content of modern CST. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 624 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108646212 9781108630238 1108630235 9781108646215 9781108448345 1108448348 9781316513606 1316513602 |