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Book SynopsisCatholic Social Teaching is a relatively new and growing body of theology. Its foundation can be found in the Bible and Tradition of the Church. However, it began to be formalized beginning in 1891 with the writing of Pope Leo's revolutionary Social Letter/Encyclical, On the New Things/Rerum Novarum. It subsequently has been woven through all the many Social Encyclicals written by the modern popes, right up to the current pope, Francis. This book is written about the many themes of Catholic Social Teaching found in these Social Letters as well as an emphasis particularly on distributive justice as found in every modern Papal Social Letter. Additionally, these Letters often discuss the current failures of modern economic systems (Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism) to meet the needs of a majority of people in the world, particularly the poor and marginalized. Although these Social Letters never propose any new economic system, the heavy emphasis on distributive justice found in all of
Table of ContentsSection One: Themes of Catholic Social Teaching Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Section Two: Catholic Social Teaching and the Social Letters of the Modern Popes Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven: Social Letters of Pope John XXIII Chapter Twelve: Social Letters of Vatican Council II, 1965 Chapter Thirteen: Social Letters of Pope Paul VI Chapter Fourteen: Social Letters of John Paul II, 1981-1987 Chapter Fifteen: Social Letters of John Paul II, 1991-1995 Chapter Sixteen: Social Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, 2009 Chapter Seventeen: Social Letters of Pope Francis, 2013-2015 Section Three: Distributive Justice and Distributism Chapter Eighteen: Roots of Distributive Justice Chapter Nineteen: Distributive Justice in the Modern Papal Social Letters-The Foundational Letters Chapter Twenty: Distributive Justice in the Social Letters of Pope John XXIII; and Vatican Council II Chapter Twenty-One: Distributive Justice in the Social Letters of Pope Paul VI Chapter Twenty-Two: Distributive Justice in the Social Letters of Pope John Paul II, 1981-1991 Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five: From Distributive Justice to Distributism Chapter Twenty-Six
