POL 3368 Catholic Political Thought
The purpose of this course is to understand the Church's teaching concerning the nature and purpose of political society and concerning the relationship between the Church and the political order. The course covers the chief political concerns of St. Augustine and St. Thomas, the struggles between the papacy and temporal authority through the Middle Ages and the Reformation and the relationship between Catholic teaching and modernity. Some or all of the following will be addressed: the application of natural law teaching; the relationship between natural law and natural rights; forms of regimes; the common good; toleration; Catholicism and democracy; Catholicism and capitalism.
Offered
Alternate years