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Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for Christians in the World Today
Living out the social message of the Catholic Christian faith is not only an academic question. But if someone asked you for one book that clearly elucidated that message, what could you give them?
Just as the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) has become a standard reference for informed Catholics about the Church's general doctrine, popes since John Paul II have expressed a desire for a "social Catechism" that succinctly presents the implications of the faith for social and political life and its connection to the new evangelization. This work aims to fill that void.
Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching employs a question and answer format, to better accentuate the response of the Church's message to the questions Catholics have about their social role and what the Church intends to teach about it. It is the first short book on Catholic Social Teaching to ground itself thoroughly in the longer and authoritative Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004), following the compendium's structure but rendering its key points more succinctly and accessibly. It also brings in more recent papal encyclicals like Caritas in Veritate and Laudato Si and new special topics (such as gender ideology).
Written in consultation with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and already a best-seller in Italy, the Handbook should take its place alongside the Catechism on the shelf of informed Catholics as works that can inform what we believe and do in the public sphere.
Just as the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) has become a standard reference for informed Catholics about the Church's general doctrine, popes since John Paul II have expressed a desire for a "social Catechism" that succinctly presents the implications of the faith for social and political life and its connection to the new evangelization. This work aims to fill that void.
Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching employs a question and answer format, to better accentuate the response of the Church's message to the questions Catholics have about their social role and what the Church intends to teach about it. It is the first short book on Catholic Social Teaching to ground itself thoroughly in the longer and authoritative Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004), following the compendium's structure but rendering its key points more succinctly and accessibly. It also brings in more recent papal encyclicals like Caritas in Veritate and Laudato Si and new special topics (such as gender ideology).
Written in consultation with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and already a best-seller in Italy, the Handbook should take its place alongside the Catechism on the shelf of informed Catholics as works that can inform what we believe and do in the public sphere.
192 pages, Paperback
Published March 17, 2017
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April 6, 2020
Written in the style of a catechism with 379 questions and a paragraph response to each of them. Most of the questions require a chapter or a whole book to answer properly but this gives a fine aspirational place to start.
I may not be Roman Catholic but I discovered that I have landed squarely on their social teachings all the same.
Reading outside one’s own tradition is also good because the vernacular for expressing spiritual truth is different and sometimes really refreshing. Like this... “the calling of the faithful is to be contemplative in the middle of the world”.
I may not be Roman Catholic but I discovered that I have landed squarely on their social teachings all the same.
Reading outside one’s own tradition is also good because the vernacular for expressing spiritual truth is different and sometimes really refreshing. Like this... “the calling of the faithful is to be contemplative in the middle of the world”.
June 20, 2018
Msgr. Schlag and his collaborators do a remarkable job at condensing the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church into a shorter catechism format. They also add material on new topics that have arisen since the original CSDC was published. The language is clear and concise. Recommended.
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