عنوان

Catholic Social Teaching and the Economic Sit Uation

شماره

LA115988

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Catholic Social Teaching and the Economic Sit Uation

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Richard C. Bayer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Official Catholic Social Teaching beginning with the Papal document Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII, 1891) has come to recognize the methodological necessity of interdisciplinary cooperation in the effort to achieve economic justice. Catholic Social Teaching together with the empirical sciences can make valuable contributions in this effort. In this article I suggest a way in which Catholic Social Teaching might be informed in an interdisciplinary dialogue so that it can address the actual situation faced by market economies with greater precision. I argue that statistical evidence taken from the United States does not support the thesis found in some Papal documents that the primary cause of economic misery is the domination of capital over labor. An analysis of modem economic power must first include a discussion of labor income. Labor receives the bulk of all income, and the distribution of this income varies quite significantly. Theological constructs developed to meet the needs of industrialized society must demonstrate awareness of this if they are to be as helpful as possible in the effort to achieve economic justice. The most recent document examined here, Ceniesimus Annus (John Paul II, 1991), shows significant congruity with the statistical evidence and argument developed in the paper. Official Catholic Social Teaching beginning with the Papal document Rerum Novarum (Leo XIII, 1891) has come to recognize the methodological necessity of interdisciplinary cooperation in the effort to achieve economic justice. Catholic Social Teaching together with the empirical sciences can make valuable contributions in this effort. In this article I suggest a way in which Catholic Social Teaching might be informed in an interdisciplinary dialogue so that it can address the actual situation faced by market economies with greater precision. I argue that statistical evidence taken from the United States does not support the thesis found in some Papal documents that the primary cause of economic misery is the domination of capital over labor. An analysis of modem economic power must first include a discussion of labor income. Labor receives the bulk of all income, and the distribution of this income varies quite significantly. Theological constructs developed to meet the needs of industrialized society must demonstrate awareness of this if they are to be as helpful as possible in the effort to achieve economic justice. The most recent document examined here, Ceniesimus Annus (John Paul II, 1991), shows significant congruity with the statistical evidence and argument developed in the paper.

تاريخ نشر

1992

توصيف ظاهري

33-52

عنوان

Journal of Empirical Theology

شماره جلد

5/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-9256

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Richard C. Bayer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157092592X00154

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y