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"The book is aimed especially to curious newcomers, especially people who do not want to be told that there are simple Catholic answers to the complicated problems of the modern world. The goal is not only to explain what the Church really says, but also how it got to its current position and w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hadas, Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021]
Temas:
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Église catholique > Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Christian sociology > Catholic Church.
Christian ethics > Catholic authors.
Doctrine sociale de l'Église.
Morale chrétienne > Auteurs catholiques.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics
Theology, Doctrinal.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Explanations and Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Background and Key Ideas
  • Idea 1: Human Nature Is Real and Comes in Three Types
  • Idea 2: People Naturally Search for the Supernatural
  • Idea 3: People Are Fundamentally Social
  • Idea 4: Love Is the Foundation of All Human Communities
  • Idea 5: Societies Are Always Imperfect
  • Idea 6: Authority Is a Necessary Part of Social Life
  • Idea 7: The Only Historical Story That Really Matters Is the Story of Redemption
  • Idea 8: Catholics Have Responded to Modernity but Not Very Successfully
  • Idea 9: The Catholic Social Teaching Is a Response to Huge Changes
  • Idea 10: Most of the Catholic Social Teaching Is Universal
  • Idea 11: The Catholic Social Teaching Can Only Offer Counsels of Imperfection
  • Idea 12: The Church Always Calls People to Perfection
  • Chapter 2: Economic Issues in an Industrial Age
  • The Biblical Base
  • The Philosophical Base
  • Five Principles
  • Chapter 3: Economics Ideas, New and Old
  • The Virtues and Vices of Technical Ingenuity
  • The Fading Challenge of Poverty and the New Challenges of Affluence
  • Free Markets
  • A Better Way
  • Chapter 4: Government-Church and State
  • The Biblical Base
  • Philosophical Tensions
  • Historical Perspective
  • What Now?
  • Chapter 5: Government-War and Peace
  • The Biblical Background
  • The Philosophical Background
  • The Historical Background
  • The Just War Doctrine
  • The Current Teaching-The War against War
  • Chapter 6: The Church Adrift in a Secular World
  • Democracy
  • Human Rights
  • The Welfare State
  • Crimes and Punishment
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Migration
  • Looking Forward
  • Chapter 7: The Care of Creation
  • The Biblical and Theological Base
  • The Teaching in Context
  • Catholics against the Mainstream-Four Issues
  • Chapter 8: Integral Ecology.
  • The Big Old Idea-Misguided Anthropocentrism
  • The Big New Idea-The Technocratic Paradigm
  • Food Production-People in Nature
  • The Life of Cities-The Poor and the Rich
  • The Life of Leisure
  • The Denigration of the Domestic
  • Cautionary Conclusion
  • Chapter 9: The Human Family-I
  • The Family in the Bible
  • The Modern Shift, in Practice
  • The Modern Shift, in Theory
  • Chapter 10: The Human Family-II
  • The Catholic Response
  • The Catholic Response in More Detail
  • A Brief Cheerful Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Three Concluding Thoughts
  • Light and Shadows
  • From Frightened Pride to Confident Humility
  • Progress and Its Discontents
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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