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  • Module A
    • Outline of Module A
      • Acknowledgements
      • Citation Information
      • Bibliography
    • A Unit 1: Contents
      • 1.1 INTRODUCTION
        • 1.1.1 CST by Sat Nav
        • 1.1.2 Doing Module A: practicalities
          • Readings not accessible on-line in Module A
        • 1.1.3 Learning outcomes for Module A
        • 1.1.4 How much time will it take?
        • 1.1.5 How to make the most of this study
        • 1.1.6 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
      • 1.2 WHERE CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING COMES FROM
        • 1.2.1 Christian faith: God is love
        • 1.2.2 The Christian Gospel: God saves
        • 1.2.3 The Church’s Social Teaching: old and new
        • 1.2.4 The Bible as a source of CST
        • 1.2.5 Questions for discussion half way through unit
      • 1.3 THE ‘PROPHETIC STRAND’ IN SCRIPTURE
        • 1.3.1 Introducing readings from Scripture
        • 1.3.2 Exodus: liberation from slavery
        • 1.3.3 Prophetic critique of political and economic power in Israel
        • 1.3.4 The prophetic strand in the New Testament: Jesus, Paul, James, Revelation
          • 1.3.4 Response to Exercise
      • 1.4 CONCLUSION
        • 1.4.1 The Compendium on CST’s sources in Scripture
        • 1.4.2 The rest of this module
        • 1.4.3 Review and discussion of Unit 1
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 1
    • A Unit 2: Contents
      • 2.1 THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CST: A VERY BRIEF OUTLINE
        • 2.1.1 Introduction to Unit 2
        • 2.1.2 From Christian division to a new search for knowledge
        • 2.1.3 The emergence of industrial capitalism
        • 2.1.4 Arguments for and against liberal capitalism
          • 2.1.4 Response to Exercise
        • 2.1.5 The publication of Rerum Novarum
          • 2.1.5 Response to Exercise
      • 2.2 PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
        • 2.2.1 Introduction
        • 2.2.2 ‘The priority of labour over capital’
        • 2.2.3 Men and women as created ‘in the image of God’
        • 2.2.4 Human dignity
        • 2.2.5 Duties and rights
        • 2.2.6 Questions for discussion half way through unit
        • 2.2.7 The Common Good
        • 2.2.8 Jacques Maritain
          • 2.2.8 Response to Exercise
        • 2.2.9 ‘Integral human development’ and ‘natural law’
        • 2.2.10 Four other principles of CST
      • 2.3 CONCLUSION: HOW TO ENGAGE WITH CST
        • 2.3.1 ‘See, judge, act’
        • 2.3.2 Using the ‘pastoral spiral’ in study of this module
        • 2.3.3 Concluding exercise: CST in national life
        • 2.3.4 Review and discussion of Unit 2
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 2
    • A Unit 3: Contents
      • 3.1 THE BACKGROUND TO ‘ECOLOGICAL CRISIS’
        • 3.1.1 Introduction to Unit 3
        • 3.1.2 Looking again at Unit 2’s historical outline
        • 3.1.3 Non-human nature as a scarce resource
        • 3.1.4 ‘Ecological crisis’
      • 3.2 EVIDENCE FOR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS?
        • 3.2.1 Introduction
        • 3.2.2 The 1950s and 1960s
        • 3.2.3 The 1970s: deforestation and desertification
          • Basic facts on desertification
        • 3.2.4 The Philippine Catholic Bishops, ‘Our Beautiful Land’
        • 3.2.5 The 1980s: ecological problems on a global scale
        • 3.2.6 1990 to the present: a growing consensus
        • 3.2.7 Ecological destruction and human poverty
      • 3.3 ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: HAS CHRISTIANITY CAUSED IT?
        • 3.3.1 Lynn White Jr’s argument
          • A 3.3.1 Response to Exercise
        • 3.3.2 A patron saint for ecology
          • Reading for 3.3.2: ‘Francis and Nature’
        • 3.3.3 Scriptural texts relating to ecological responsibility
        • 3.3.4 ‘In the image of God’: introduction
        • 3.3.5 ‘In the image of God’: (a) dominion in the good creation
        • 3.3.6 ‘In the image of God’: (b) humans as ‘persons in relation’
        • 3.3.7 ‘In the image of God’: summary
        • 3.3.8 Questions for discussion half way through unit
      • 3.4 STATEMENTS IN CST ON ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY
        • 3.4.1 Beginnings
        • 3.4.2 Pope John Paul II
          • A 3.4.2 Response to Exercise
        • 3.4.3 The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
        • 3.4.4 Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis
      • 3.5 ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
        • 3.5.1 Critical overview of CST on ecology: Dorr
        • 3.5.2 Critical overview of CST on ecology: Deane-Drummond
          • 3.5.2 Response to Exercise
        • 3.5.3 ‘Living life to the full’ with all creation
        • 3.5.4 Review and discussion of Unit 3
          • Response to 3.5.4, discussion question 1
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 3
    • A Unit 4: Contents
      • 4.1 EXPERIENCE OF WORK
        • 4.1.1 Introduction: following the ‘pastoral spiral’ in this unit
        • 4.1.2 Your work – past, present, future
        • 4.1.3 Different ‘sectors’ of work
        • 4.1.4 Issues in working life
        • 4.1.5 What this unit is about and not about
      • 4.2 RERUM NOVARUM
        • 4.2.1 Revisiting the historical context of Rerum Novarum
        • 4.2.2 Rerum Novarum: introduction
        • 4.2.3 RN, part 1: A natural right to private property (##4-15)
        • 4.2.4 RN, part 2: The role of the Church in teaching and charity (##16-31)
        • 4.2.5 RN, part 2: The role of the Church, continued (##16-31)
        • 4.2.6 RN part 3: The role of government in ensuring just working conditions (##32-47)
        • 4.2.7 RN, part 4: Workers have a right to form associations/unions (##48-61)
        • 4.2.8 Rerum Novarum: summing up
          • A 4.2.8 Response to Exercise
      • 4.3 LABOREM EXERCENS
        • 4.3.1 From Rerum Novarum to Laborem Exercens
        • 4.3.2 Laborem Exercens: preface and introduction (##1-3)
          • Laborem Exercens, Preface
          • Laborem Exercens, Chapter I
        • 4.3.3 Work as for the human person (LE ##4-7)
          • Laborem Exercens, Chapter II
        • 4.3.4 ‘Solidarity’ (LE #8)
        • 4.3.5 Work, dignity and society (LE ##9-10)
        • 4.3.6 The priority of labour over capital (LE ##11-12)
          • Laborem Exercens, chapter III
        • 4.3.7 Questions for discussion half way through unit
        • 4.3.8 The critique of ‘economism’ and ‘materialism’ (LE ##13-15)
        • 4.3.9 ‘Rights of Workers’ (LE ##16-23)
          • Laborem Exercens, chapter IV
        • 4.3.10 ‘Elements for a Spirituality of Work’ (LE ##24-27)
          • Laborem Exercens, Chapter V
      • 4.4 CST ON WORK: ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
        • 4.4.1 Summary and review of Laborem Exercens
          • 4.4.1 Response to Exercise
        • 4.4.2 General assessment of CST on working life
        • 4.4.3 Christian action for workers’ rights
        • 4.4.4 Review and discussion of Unit 4
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 4
    • A Unit 5: Contents
      • 5.1 ECONOMIC LIFE: EXPERIENCE AND CONTEXT
        • 5.1.1 Introduction: what Unit 5 is about
          • A 5.1.1 Response to Exercise
        • 5.1.2 Your experience of private business
        • 5.1.3 Historical context: revision of Unit 2 historical outline
        • 5.1.4 Historical context: from Cold War to 2008 financial crisis
        • 5.1.5 Historical context: an argument about knowledge in markets
        • 5.1.6 McCarthy on ‘Modern Economy’, and a lacuna: ‘social capitalism’
      • 5.2 ELEMENTS OF CST ON BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
        • 5.2.1 The ‘universal destination of material goods’
        • 5.2.2 Scripture
        • 5.2.3 Applying moral principles in economic life
        • 5.2.4 ‘Private Initiative and Business Initiative’
          • A 5.2.4 Response to Exercise
        • 5.2.5 How does CST assess ‘capitalism’?
          • 5.2.5 Response to Exercise
        • 5.2.6 The ‘free economy’ and its ‘juridical framework’
        • 5.2.7 Questions for discussion half way through unit
      • 5.3 CST’S CONSTRUCTIVE VISION OF BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
        • 5.3.1 CST’s fourth way
        • 5.3.2 But is CST’s vision realistic?
        • 5.3.3 ‘Structures of sin’ in business life
        • 5.3.4 Before and after the financial crisis
          • A 5.3.4 Response to Exercise
      • 5.4 CST ON ECONOMIC LIFE: ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
        • 5.4.2 Action: making the ‘universal destination’ particular
        • 5.4.3 Review and discussion of Unit
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 5
    • A Unit 6: Contents
      • 6.1 FAMILY LIFE: EXPERIENCE AND CONTEXT
        • 6.1.1 How has ‘family’ come up in previous units?
          • 6.1.1 Response to Exercise
        • 6.1.2 Family life: experience
        • 6.1.3 Family life in historical context
      • 6.2 CST ON ‘NATURAL LAW’, SUBSIDIARITY AND FAMILY
        • 6.2.1 Human wellbeing – what natural law leads us towards
        • 6.2.2 Natural law
        • 6.2.3 ‘Human flourishing’?
        • 6.2.4 Subsidiarity, work and family life
      • 6.3 CST ON FAMILY LIFE IN SOCIETY
        • 6.3.1 CST on family: ideals and realities
        • 6.3.2 Questions for discussion half way through unit
        • 6.3.3 Familiaris Consortio: ‘The Plan of God for Marriage and the Family’
        • 6.3.4 “Two specific ways” of living the human vocation to love
        • 6.3.5 CST’s high view of the marriage relationship
        • 6.3.6 Family as “domestic church”: source for a radical vision
        • 6.3.7 Cahill’s assessment of CST on family life
          • 6.3.7 Response to Exercise
      • 6.4 HOW CAN FAMILIES ACT FOR THE COMMON GOOD?
        • 6.4.1 The example of the Catholic Worker Movement
        • 6.4.2 Practices for Christian families
        • 6.4.3 Review and discussion of Unit 6
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 6
    • A Unit 7: Contents
      • 7.1 INTRODUCTION: LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE
        • 7.1.1 Human dignity
        • 7.1.2 Duties and rights: some basics
        • 7.1.3 ‘Positive/benefit rights’ and ‘negative/freedom rights’
          • 7.1.3 Response to Exercise
        • 7.1.4 Your study so far and your experience
          • 7.1.4 Response to Exercise
        • 7.1.5 How the language works
      • 7.2 CST ON HUMAN DIGNITY, RIGHTS AND DUTIES
        • 7.2.1 CST on human dignity
        • 7.2.2 Historical context: the emergence of ‘human rights’
        • 7.2.3 The ‘Catholic human rights revolution’
        • 7.2.4 CST on rights and duties: the documents
          • Pacem in Terris, ##1-45
        • 7.2.5 Questions for discussion half way through unit
        • 7.2.6 The human right to religious freedom
      • 7.3 REVIEW, ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
        • 7.3.1 Summary of CST on rights and duties
          • 7.3.1 Response to Exercise
        • 7.3.2 Objections to human rights discourse, 1: It’s selfish
        • 7.3.3 Objection 2: Human rights language is individualistic
        • 7.3.4 Objection 3: ‘Rights inflation’
        • 7.3.5 Objection 4: Don’t ‘human rights’ conflict?
        • 7.3.6 Taking action against human rights abuses
        • 7.3.7 Review and discussion of Unit 7
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 7
    • A Unit 8: Contents
      • 8.1 CST’S EMERGENCE IN MODERN WESTERN HISTORY
        • 8.1.1 Reviewing the module’s Learning Outcomes
        • 8.1.2 Revising your historical learning
          • 8.1.2 Response to Exercise
        • 8.1.3 The Compendium’s summary of CST’s history
        • 8.1.4 Different kinds of historical explanation
      • 8.2 CENTESIMUS ANNUS
        • 8.2.1 ‘Introduction’ and Chap. 1: ‘Characteristics of Rerum Novarum’
          • A 8.2.1 Response to Exercise
        • 8.2.2 Chap. 2: ‘Towards the “New Things” of Today’
        • 8.2.3 Chap. 3: ‘The Year 1989’
        • 8.2.4 Chap. 4: ‘Private Property and the Universal Destination of Material Goods’
        • 8.2.5 Chap. 5: ‘State and Culture’
        • 8.2.6 Chap. 6: ‘Man Is the Way of the Church’
        • 8.2.7 Questions for discussion half way through unit
      • 8.3 CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MODERN CST TRADITION
        • 8.3.1 Aims of the module: from knowledge to critical thinking
        • 8.3.2 Dorr’s critical assessment after 100 years
        • 8.3.3 Justice for women: the “biggest lacuna” in CST?
        • 8.3.4 CST on women: a “new feminism”?
      • 8.4 CONCLUSION: ‘LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL’
        • 8.4.1 Living life to the full
        • 8.4.2 Solidarity and Eucharist
        • 8.4.3 Review and discussion of Unit 8
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 8
  • Module B
    • Outline of Module B
    • B Unit 1: Contents
      • 1.1 INTRODUCTION
        • 1.1.1 A just and free society?
        • 1.1.2 Doing Module B: practicalities
        • 1.1.3 Learning outcomes for Module B
        • 1.1.4 How much time will it take?
        • 1.1.5 How to make the most of this study
        • 1.1.6 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
      • 1.2 WHERE CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING COMES FROM
        • 1.2.1 Christian faith: God is love
        • 1.2.2 The Christian gospel: God saves
        • 1.2.3 The Church’s Social Teaching: old and new
        • 1.2.4 Sources of CST: the Bible, reason, tradition and experience
        • 1.2.5 ‘A just and free society’: the parts of CST covered in this module
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        • 1.2.6 Questions for discussion half way through the unit
      • 1.3 MAIN PRINCIPLES OF CST
        • 1.3.1 Justice
        • 1.3.2 The common good
        • 1.3.3 The common good: two complications
        • 1.3.4 Respect for human dignity
        • 1.3.5 Protection of human freedom
        • 1.3.6 The preferential option for the poor
        • 1.3.7 The principle of subsidiarity
        • 1.3.8 The priority of labour over capital
        • 1.3.9 ‘Integral human development’
        • 1.3.10 CST’s vision: neither ‘collectivist’ nor ‘individualist’
        • 1.3.11 Conclusion: solidarity and its absence
      • 1.4 CONCLUSION
        • 1.4.1 The rest of Module B
        • 1.4.2 Three normative questions about government
        • 1.4.3 Review and discussion of Unit 1
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 1
    • B Unit 2: Contents
      • 2.1 INTRODUCTION TO UNIT 2
      • 2.2 THE ‘JUST GOVERNMENT STRAND’ IN THE BIBLE
        • 2.2.1 Introducing readings from Scripture
        • 2.2.2 An outline of biblical history
        • 2.2.3 Just government: (1) The Torah
        • 2.2.4 Just government: (2) The role of Israel’s king
          • B 2.2.4 Response to Exercise
        • 2.2.5 Just government: (3) Jesus
        • 2.2.6 Just government: (4) God above Caesar
          • Mark 11:27 – 12:17
          • B 2.2.6 Response to Exercise
        • 2.2.7 Why should people accept government’s claim to authority?
        • 2.2.8 How should government be constituted? Clarifying the question
        • 2.2.9 How should government be constituted? Forms of government in Scripture
        • 2.2.10 Conclusion: the ‘just government strand’ in the Bible
      • 2.3 THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING 100-1740 CE
        • 2.3.1 Questions for discussion half way through the unit
        • 2.3.2 The patristic period
        • 2.3.3 The medieval period
        • 2.3.4 The early modern period
      • 2.4 THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MODERN CST
        • 2.4.1 From Christian division to a new search for knowledge
        • 2.4.2 The French Revolution and its long tail
        • 2.4.3 What has actually happened in modern history?
          • B 2.4.3 Response to Exercise
        • 2.4.4 ‘Liberalism’
        • 2.4.5 ‘Conservatism’ and ‘socialism’
        • 2.4.6 How is CST related to liberalism, conservatism and socialism?
        • 2.4.7 Conclusion of historical outline
      • 2.5 REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF UNIT 2
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 2
    • B Unit 3: Contents
      • 3.1 INTRODUCTION: JUSTICE
        • 3.1.1 What should government do?
        • 3.1.2 Answer: justice
        • 3.1.3 Government depends on possible resort to coercion
        • 3.1.4 Distributive justice
        • 3.1.5 Retributive justice and the rule of law
        • 3.1.6 Two temptations for Christians to avoid
      • 3.2 THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY
        • 3.2.1 Finding CST’s view of the role of government
        • 3.2.2 Quadragesimo Anno on subsidiarity
        • 3.2.3 The ‘pluralist’ dimension of subsidiarity
        • 3.2.4 Reasons for the principle of subsidiarity
        • 3.2.5 Suspensions of subsidiarity
        • 3.2.6 Questions for discussion half way through the unit
      • 3.3 THE POSITIVE, ‘SUBSIDIARY’ ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
        • 3.3.1 Recognizing civil society bodies
        • 3.3.2 Upholding human rights
          • Pacem in Terris, ##60-66
        • 3.3.3 Directing society to the common good
          • 3.3.3 Response to Exercise
        • 3.3.4 Government’s responsibility for distributive justice: interim summary
        • 3.3.5 Further issues
        • 3.3.6 John Courtney Murray: government’s role as ‘public order’
      • 3.4 DEVELOPING OUR STUDY OF LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM AND SOCIALISM
        • 3.4.1 Civil society and state
        • 3.4.2 Liberalism, conservatism and socialism: take two
        • 3.5 REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF UNIT 3
      • COMMENTS ON UNIT 3
    • B Unit 4: Contents
      • 4.1 INTRODUCTION: PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRACY
        • 4.1.1 CST’s emphasis on participation
        • 4.1.2 Political participation – made possible by democracy
        • 4.1.3 This unit’s question: how should government be constituted?
      • 4.2 DEMOCRACY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
        • 4.2.1 How recent is democracy?
        • 4.2.2 Forms of government, good and bad
        • 4.2.3 Where does ‘democracy’ fit in?
        • 4.2.4 Monarchy, democracy and the Catholic Church
        • 4.2.5 Three kinds of argument for democracy
      • 4.3 DEMOCRACY IN MODERN CST
        • 4.3.1 Maritain on Christianity and democracy
          • B 4.3.1 Response to Exercise
        • 4.3.2 Democracy in CST texts (i): Pius XII
        • 4.3.3 Democracy in CST texts (ii): John XXIII, Pacem in Terris
          • Pacem in Terris, ## 26-27
        • 4.3.4 Democracy in CST texts (iii): Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes
        • 4.3.5 Democracy in CST texts (iv): John Paul II, Centesimus Annus
          • 4.3.5 Response to exercise
        • 4.3.6 Democracy in CST texts (v): John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae
        • 4.3.7 Freedom and truth
        • 4.3.8 Democracy in CST texts (vi): Benedict XVI
          • Caritas in Veritate, #5
        • 4.3.9 Review of CST on participation and democracy
          • B 4.3.9 Response to Exercise
      • 4.4 ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
        • 4.4.1 How CST does and does not argue for democracy
        • 4.4.2 Political consent in Catholic thought: the ‘transmission theory’
          • 4.4.2 Yves Simon on Bellarmine
          • 4.4.2 Yves Simon on ‘Authority in Democracy’
        • 4.4.3 Democracy in the Catholic Church’s structures?
        • 4.4.4 Religious freedom and democracy
        • 4.4.5 Democratic participation in practice: Unit 5
      • 4.6 COMMENTS ON UNIT 4
    • B Unit 5: Contents
      • 5.1 INTRODUCTION: ACTING FOR JUSTICE
        • 5.1.1 Outline of units 5, 6 and 7
        • 5.1.2 Desperate people
        • 5.1.3 ‘See, judge, act’
        • 5.1.4 From ‘see, judge, act’ to the ‘pastoral spiral’
      • 5.2 MATER ET MAGISTRA
        • 5.2.1 MM chapter I: principles of CST
          • 5.2.1 Response to Exercise
        • 5.2.2 The principle of solidarity
        • 5.2.3 The concept of social justice
        • 5.2.4 Hayek’s critique of social justice
        • 5.2.5 Responding to Hayek’s argument
        • 5.2.6 MM chapter II: The revival of civil society
        • 5.2.7 MM chapter II: The controversy about ‘socialization’
        • 5.2.8 MM chapter II: State provision as a means to the common good
        • 5.2.9 MM chap. III: CST addresses international development
          • 5.2.9 RESPONSE TO EXERCISE
        • 5.2.10 Questions for discussion half way through the unit
      • 5.3 POPULORUM PROGRESSIO
        • 5.3.1 PP Part I, ‘Towards an Integral Human Development’
          • Text of Populorum Progressio
        • 5.3.2 PP I.1 Historical context (##6-11)
        • 5.3.3 PP I.2 Integral development (##12-21 and #42)
        • 5.3.4 Henri de Lubac and Louis-Joseph Lebret
        • 5.3.5 PP I.3 a. Integral development vs ‘unchecked liberalism’ (##22-28)
          • 5.3.5 Response to Exercise
        • 5.3.6 PP I.3 b. Urgent challenges in realizing development (##29-41)
        • 5.3.7 PP Part II, ‘Towards the Solidary Development of Humanity’
        • 5.3.8 PP II.1. Solidarity: aid to poor nations (##45-55)
        • 5.3.9 PP I.2. Social justice: equity in trade (##56-65)
        • 5.3.10 PP II.3 Universal charity: toward a more human world (##66-75)
        • 5.3.11 PP Conclusion: development and peace (##76-87)
      • 5.4 ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
        • 5.4.1 Critical assessments of Populorum Progressio
    • B Unit 6: Contents
      • 6.1 INTRODUCTION
        • 6.1.1 A new trajectory in CST: Populorum Progressio to Caritas in Veritate
        • 6.1.2 What is poverty?
        • 6.1.3 Poverty in the Catholic Church’s teaching
      • 6.2 A RADICAL CHALLENGE: LIBERATION THEOLOGY
        • 6.2.1 Liberation theology: an outline
        • 6.2.2 Base ecclesial communities and Freire on ‘conscientization’
        • 6.2.3 Gustavo Gutiérrez
        • 6.2.4 Liberation theology’s global vision
        • 6.2.5 Liberation theology and Marxism: revolution and socialism
        • 6.2.6 Liberation theology and Marxism: class analysis
        • 6.2.7 The Vatican’s response to liberation theology
        • 6.2.8 Two ‘Instructions’ on liberation theology
      • 6.3 SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS (1987)
        • 6.3.1 SRS, chapter I: ‘Introduction’
        • 6.3.2 SRS chapters II and III
        • 6.3.3 SRS, chapter IV: ‘Authentic human development’
        • 6.3.4 ‘Structures of sin’: background
        • 6.3.5 SRS, chapter V on ‘structures of sin’
          • 6.3.5 Response to Exercise
        • 6.3.6 SRS, chapter V on solidarity
        • 6.3.7 Three ways in which John Paul II develops CST on solidarity
        • 6.3.8 SRS chapter VI on the preferential option for the poor
        • 6.3.9 CST on international development after liberation theology
      • 6.4 A NEOCONSERVATIVE CHALLENGE: ‘DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM’
        • 6.4.1 Introduction: Catholic defenders of capitalism
        • 6.4.2 Neoliberalism and neoconservatism
        • 6.4.3 Novak on liberation theology and international development
        • 6.4.4 Novak’s engagement with CST
        • 6.4.5 Centesimus Annus: affirming enterprise
        • 6.4.6 Centesimus Annus: envisioning a non-capitalist market economy?
        • 6.4.7 Novak on CST up to Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
        • 6.4.8 Novak on Centesimus Annus
        • 6.4.9 Conclusion: neoconservatism, CST and international development
    • B Unit 7: Contents
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6.4 HOW CAN FAMILIES ACT FOR THE COMMON GOOD?

 

6.4.1            The example of the Catholic Worker Movement

6.4.2            Practices for Christian families

6.4.3            Review and discussion of Unit 6

 

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