Catholic Social Teaching as Theology
Catholic Social Teaching as Theology

Author: Catta, Grégoire, SJ

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1587687232

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Explores the theological dimension of Catholic social teaching by showing how magisterial documents dealing with social issues are a path to enter into the mystery of the Christian God and to produce “theo-logy”: a reasoned discourse about the divine.

Earthly Mission
Earthly Mission

Author: Robert Calderisi

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0300196768

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With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world's largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church's obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth control, and the child abuse scandal has alienated many Catholics, especially in the West. Yet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the Church is highly esteemed for its support of education, health, and social justice. In this deeply informed book, Robert Calderisi unravels the paradoxes of the Catholic Church's role in the developing world over the past 60 years. Has the Catholic Church on balance been a force for good? Calderisi weighs the Church's various missteps and poor decisions against its positive contributions, looking back as far as the Spanish Conquest in Latin America and the arrival of missionaries in Africa and Asia. He also looks forward, highlighting difficult issues that threaten to disrupt the Church's future social role. The author's answer to the question he poses will fascinate Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, providing a wealth of insights into international affairs, development economics, humanitarian concerns, history, and theology.

Christians in the American Empire
Christians in the American Empire

Author: Vincent D. Rougeau

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0195188098

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This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation, and that the American founding and the American Constitution can be linked to a Christian understanding of the state and society. Vincent Rougeau argues that the United States has become an economic empire of consumer citizens, led by elites who seek to secure American political and economic dominance around the world. Freedom and democracy for the oppressed are the public themes put forward to justify this dominance, but the driving force behind American hegemony is the need to sustain economic growth and maintain social peace in the United States. --from publisher description.

The Catholic Church in World Politics
The Catholic Church in World Politics

Author: Eric O. Hanson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1400858607

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Eric Hanson's multifaceted book examines the place of the church in the contemporary international system and the reciprocal influence of modern political and technological developments on the internal affairs of the church. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics
A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics

Author: Joseph Loïc Mben, S.J.

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1978707428

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Combining Catholic social teaching, feminist and African liberation theology, and the social sciences, Joseph Loïc Mben, SJ, develops a contextual gendered African Christian social ethic that addresses the oppression and marginalization of working women in Sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses primarily on African women from working and poor classes living in either urban or rural settings, particularly in Cameroon, and thus shows the necessity of inflecting Catholic social teaching along the differential of gender.