| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 who it is arguing with. For each topic, Counsels of Imperfection provides biblical, historical and a broad philosophical background. In the spirit of a doctrine always in development, Counsels of Imperfection points out both strong-points and imperfections in the teaching. The book is divided into 11 chapters. First comes an introduction to ever-changing modernity and the unchanging Christian understanding of human nature and society. Then come two chapters on economics, including a careful delineation of the Catholic response to socialism and capitalism. The next topic is government (Church and State, War, and democracy and related topics). Next two chapters on ecology. The last topic is the family teaching, which presents the social aspects of the Church's sexual teaching as relates to society. A brief concluding chapter looks at the teaching's changing response to the modern world, and at the ambiguous Catholic appreciation of the modern idea of progress"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2021) |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church fast |
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Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.
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Christian ethics -- Catholic authors.
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RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics
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Christian ethics -- Catholic authors
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Christian sociology -- Catholic Church
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Theology, Doctrinal
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020043684 |
| ISBN |
9780813233321 |
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0813233321 |
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