Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times

by Anna Rowlands

Overview

Anna 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567212337
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/02/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	739 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1
The Emergence of Modern Catholic Social Teaching

Chapter 2
Human Dignity: philosophical and theological trajectories

Chapter 3
Human Dignity: and (forced) migration

Chapter 4
Human Dignity: the question of social and structural sin

Chapter 5
The Common Good: the long tradition in context

Chapter 6
The Common Good: in patristic and medieval context

Chapter 7
The Common Good: the encyclical tradition

Chapter 8
The body politic and the political community

Chapter 9
Subsidiarity: a principle of participation and social governance

Chapter 10
Solidarity: a developing theory

Chapter 11
The universal destination of goods: towards an integral ecology

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

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. - The Tablet

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