American Catholic Social Ethics: Twentieth-Century Approaches

by Charles E. Curran

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268006091
• ISBN13: 9780268006099
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"

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OUR GREATEST AMERICAN CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGIAN DEMONSTRATES THE 20th CENTURY HISTORY OF OUR SOCIAL

Looking back we discover our way forward. Fortunately our most scholarly and popular (not mutually exclusive in this case) and influential American Catholic moral theologian, the Reverend Father Charles Curran, describes and explains the history of American Catholic Social Ethics in the 20th century, by which we may rediscover our way forward in this present desert silence. The Reverend Father Curran examines in depth the lives and the works of John Ryan, WIliam Engelen, Paul Furfey and the Catholic Worker movement, John Courtney Murray, and the Catholic Peace movements, specifically through James Douglass. By studying the acts, the prayers and the teachings of these great heroic American Catholics may we now recover our past and stand upon the shoulders of these saintly giants in order to move forward and prohetically and courageously and strongly and prayerfully fulfill our CAtholic mission within the present crisis of war and injustice and immorality, in a monopolistic and unjust society in which ethics have grown unknown and discarded, in a Church which constricts and paralyzes its present concept of social ethics and dares ignore to its peril our great social encyclicals and these great Catholic and American men of the past century. Read this book please and find our fire of our Faith and the strength for the mighty work ahead in forming the eschatalogical Kingdom of God which Catholic social ethics alone may bring.