Description
Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon of Western European Left Catholicism from a comparative and transnational perspective. Decisively shaped by the turbulent atmosphere of war, occupation and resistance, the years 1943-1955 gave rise to a most unusual flowering of progressive initiatives in Catholic politics, theology and apostolic missions. Though suffering severe setbacks in the deep freeze of Cold War politics, mid-century Western European Left Catholicism was not without influence in the subsequent emergence of Latin American Liberation Theology and the deliberations of Vatican II.
Table of Contents Introduction
Emmanuel Gerard and Gerd-Rainer Horn
Left Catholicism in Western Europe in the 1940s
Gerd-Rainer Horn
The French Catholic Left and the Political Parties
Jean-Claude Delbreil
Left Wing Catholicism in France. From Catholic Action to the Political Left: the Mouvement Populaire des Familles
Bruno Duriez
Left Catholicism and Christian Progressivism in France (1945-1955)
Yvon Tranvouez
The Milieu of Left Wing Catholics in Belgium (1940s-1950s)
Jean-Louis Jadoulle
The Témoignage of the Worker Priests.Contextual Layers of the Pioneer Epoch (1941-1955
Oscar Cole-Arnal
Christian Movements and Parties of the Left in Italy (1938-1958)
Antonio Parisella
"Left Catholicism" and the Experiences "on the Frontier" of the Church and Italian Society (1939-1958)
Giorgio Vecchio
Socialism out of Christian Responsibility. The German Experiment of Left Catholicism (1945-1949)
Andreas Lienkamp
Multi-Faceted Relations between Christian Trade Unions and Left Catholicism in Europe
Patrick Pasture
From Permission to Prohibition. The Impact of the Changing International Context on Left Catholicism in Europe
Peter Van Kemseke
Left Catholicism in Europe in the 1940s. Elements of an Interpretation
Martin Conway
Bibliography-Index
