Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780878408566
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Christian social thought & activity; Political economy; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Religious aspects; History; Christianity - History - Catholic; Religion - Catholicism; Religion, Politics & State; Religion; Religion - Classic Works; History of doctrines; Christianity - Catholic; Religion-Christianity - Catholicism; Christianity - Catholicism; Catholic Church; Christian sociology; Doctrines; Economics
First sentence: Alarmed by the growing rift between labor and management during the maturation of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Europe, Leo XIII breaks out of the "state of siege" (Bokenkotter 1990) in 1891 and decries the plight of workers in his encyclical Rerum Novarum (Camp 1969; Schuck 1991).