THE 4343 Social Teaching

The social teachings of the Church as found in a variety of social encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum (1891) and Centesimus Annus (1991). Specific topics include the role of the laity in the temporal order, the communal nature of man, just-war theory, liberation theology, the death penalty, Catholicism and the American political order and the relationship between Catholicism and various economic systems. Offered regularly.

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