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Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.
List of contents
Introduction: continuity, change, and contingency in modern Catholic social teaching Gerard Bradley and E. Christian Brugger; Part I. Historical Background: 1. Aquinas as a primary source of Catholic social teaching John Finnis; 2. The nineteenth century historical and intellectual context of Catholic social teaching Thomas Behr; Part II. Leo XIII to Francis: The Modern Documentary Tradition: 3. Rerum Novarum (1891) Joseph Boyle; 4. Quadragesimo Anno (1931) Samuel Gregg; 5. Pope Pius XII on social issues Ronald J. Rychlak; 6. Development in Catholic social teaching: John XXIII to Paul VI V. Bradley Lewis; 7. Social teaching in Pope John Paul II Patrick Lee; 8. Pope Benedict XVI on the political and social order Brian Benestad; 9. The social teaching of Pope Francis Daniel Mahoney; Part III. Themes in Catholic Social Teaching: 10. Catholic social teaching on the common good V. Bradley Lewis; 11. The universal destination of the world's resources Cristóbal Orrego; 12. The Apostolate of the Laity Christopher Tollefsen; 13. Globalization John Finnis; 14. Are some men angels? Modern Catholic social thought and Trust in government Christopher Wolfe; 15. The moral principles governing the immigration policies of polities Kevin Flannery SJ; 16. International finance and Catholic social teaching Robert Kennedy; 17. Subsidiarity Maria Cahill; 18. Socialism and capitalism in Catholic social thought Catherine Ruth Pakaluk; 19. Preferential option for the poor and Catholic Social teaching Martin Schlag; 20. Catholic social teaching and living the Christian life Russell Shaw; Part IV. Evaluative and Critical Reflections: 21. Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching E. Christian Brugger; 22. How should Bishops teach Catholic social teaching? Gerard V. Bradley; 23. A radical critique of Catholic social teaching John M. Finnis.
About the author
Gerard V. Bradley is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has been a Visiting Professor of Politics at Princeton University, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. At the University of Notre Dame he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Jurisprudence and serves as Co-Director of the Natural Law Institute.E. Christian Brugger is Professor of Moral Theology at St Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Florida. He is author of Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, 2nd edition (2014), and more recently, The Indissolubility of Marriage and the Council of Trent (2017).
Summary
A suitable text for graduate courses and upper level undergraduate seminars in religious ethics, moral theology and related subjects. Will be of interest to nearly anyone in the humanities or social sciences fields.
