Catholic social thought as discernment

Logos - Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 94-111

  Verstraeten, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 60950696017     PISSN: 10916687     EISSN: 1533791X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/log.2005.0031     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Guadium et Spes, no. 4 (hereafter cited in text as GS)
2. John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (1991), no. 55 (hereafter cited in text as G4, with references to section numbers)
3. John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987), no. 41 (hereafter cited in text as SRS, with references to section numbers)
4. John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (1979), no. 9 (hereafter cited in text as RH, with references to section numbers)
5. I will not elaborate on this since I have worked it out in other articles. See for example J. Verstraeten, "Solidarity and Subsidiarity," in David A. Bolieau, Principles of Catholic Social Teaching, Marquette Studies in Theology, 14 (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1994), 133-47
6. Vivian Boland, review of Jonathan S. Boswell, Frank P. McHugh, and Johan Verstraeten, Catholic Social Thought: Twilight or Renaissance? in New Black Friars October 2003, XVII
7. Middle-level thinking is the reflection with which one connects Christian anthropology and general notions of complex solidarity, subsidiarity, justice, and options for the poor to ideas for policy. Cf. Boswell, McHugh, and Verstraeten, introduction to Twilight or Renaissance? (Leuven: Peeters/University Press, 2000) p. XVII
8. Synod of Catholic Bishops, Justice in the World, 1971, section 6. Misunderstandings about these words have led to a re interpretation of the link between action for justice in terms of "profound links" in Evangelii Nuntiandi. The misunderstanding was, however, not caused by the original text but by its translation in German and Dutch in which "constitutive" was interpreted as "essential."
9. Marvin L. Krier Mich, Catholic Social Teaching and Movements (Mystic, CN: Twenty-Third Publications, 2000), 1
10. For an elucidation of the relation between Catholic social thought and Catholic social teaching see Johan Verstraeten, "Rethinking Catholic Social Thought as Tradition," in Boswell, McHugh, and Verstraeten, Twilight or Renaissance? 59-78
11. For a reflection on this problem see Johan De Tavernier, "Eschatology and Social Ethics," in Louis Janssens, Joseph A. Selling, and Franz Böckle, Personalist Morals: Essays in Honor of Professor Louis Janssens (Leuven: Peeters/University Press, 1988), 279-300
12. Cf. Octagesima Adveniens, no. 38-40
13. Cf. Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership without Easy Answers (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994), 24
14. My interpretation of Paul Ricoeur is mainly influenced by Alain Thomasset, Paul Ricoeur, Une poétique de la morale (Leuven: Peeters/University Press, 1996)
15. Mary Elsbernd and Reimund Bieringer, When Love is Not Enough: A Theo-Ethic of Justice (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002), 156 n. 20
16. Elbernd, Bieringer, When Love is Not Enough, 156
17. Cf. Luc Reychler, "Religion and Conflict," in International Journal of Peace Studies 2, no. 1 (1997): 19-38
18. and R. Scott Appleby, The Ambivalence of the Sacred. Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
19. I follow here the description of Grotius thought by James Turner Johnson, Ideology, Reason and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), 222-26
20. Klaus Demmer, "Naturrecht und Offenbarung," in Franz Furger, Marianne Heimbach-Steins, Andreas Lienkamp, and Joachim Wiemeyer (Hrsg.), Brennpunkt Sozialethi: Theorien, Aufgaben, Methoden (Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany: Herder, 1995), 42
21. Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996)
22. David Hollenbach, "A Communitarian Reconstruction of Human Rights," in R. B. Douglass and David Hollenbach, Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 127-50
23. Cf. Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
24. Cf. Peter Toole, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo (London: SCM, 2001)
25. Johannes Baptist Metz, Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Society (New York: Seabury Press, 1980)
26. See Robert Bellah et al., The Good Society (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991), ch. 5
27. Cf. Michael Buckley, "The Search for a New Humanism: The University and the Concern for Justice," in The Catholic University as Promise and Project: Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998)
28. See also Johan Verstraeten, "L'enracinement spirituel de la citoyenneté. Un défi pour les universités catholiques," in Vincent Engel, L'université européenne, acteur de citoyenneté (Louvain-la-Neuve: Bruylant, 1999), 99-113