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

Anna Rowlands

 
9780567242730: Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times

Synopsis

Winner of the Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award 2023

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.

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About the Author

Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Durham University, UK and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.

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ISBN 10:  0567219089 ISBN 13:  9780567219084
Publisher: T&T Clark, 2021
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