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Debating God's economy : social justice in America on the eve of Vatican II

Title: Debating God's economy : social justice in America on the eve of Vatican II / Craig R. Prentiss.
Author: Prentiss, Craig R.
Publication: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.

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Description

xii, 267 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"What would a divinely ordained social order look like? Pre-Vatican II Catholics, from archbishops and theologians to Catholic union workers and laborers on U.S. farms, argued repeatedly about this in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debating God's Economy is a history of American Catholic economic debates taking place during the generation preceding Vatican II. At that time, American society was rife with sociopolitical debates over the relative merits and dangers of Marxism, capitalism, and socialism; labor unions, class consciousness, and economic power were the watchwords of the day." "This was a time of immense social change, and, especially in the light of the monumental social and economic upheavals in Russia and Europe in the early twentieth century, Catholics found themselves taking sides. Catholic subcultures across America sought to legitimize - or, in theological parlance, "sanctify"--Diverse economic systems that were, at times, mutually exclusive. While until now the faithful - both scholars and nonscholars - have typically spoken of "the Catholic Social Tradition" as if it were an established prescription for curing social ills, Prentiss maintains that the tradition is better understood as a debate grounded in a common mythology that provides Catholics with a distinctive vocabulary and touchstone of authority."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

Contents

The encyclicals -- Sanctifying life on the land -- Sanctifying industrial labor -- Sanctifying American capitalism -- Catholics and right-to-work laws -- Industry councils.

ISBN

9780271033419
027103341X
9780271058764
0271058765

LCCN

2007042088

OCLC

ocn175286343
175286343
SCSB-1480319

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Princeton University Library