THE 6343 Catholic Social Thought

The social encyclicals, from Rerum Novarum (1891) to Centesimus Annus (1991). The role of the laity in the temporal order, the communal nature of man, just-war theory, liberation theology, the death penalty, the relationship between the principles of the American founding and Catholicism and the relationship between Catholicism and various economic systems. Number was used Spring 1988 for Moral Theology; Spring 1989 for Social Justice; Catholic Social Thought beginning Fall 2002.

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