Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times

Anna Rowlands' book offers a comprehensive guide to Catholic Social Teaching, covering its main periods, figures, documents, and themes, and exploring its implications for political community, democracy, migration, and integral ecology. It provides a fresh approach to the debate about the transformative potential of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 02 December 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Anna Rowlands, the recipient of the Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award 2023, presents a comprehensive guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents, and themes of Catholic Social Teaching (CST). The Catholic Church has produced a vast amount of material over its long history, reflecting on the implications of scripture, doctrine, and natural law for the way these elements coexist in community, particularly through the tradition of social encyclicals dating back to 1891. Rowlands approaches CST with a fresh perspective, skillfully blending overviews of the central principles with the development of thinking on political community and democracy, migration, and integral ecology. She also addresses the increasingly critical questions surrounding the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. This book provides both an insightful overview of this unique body of Catholic political theology and a fresh and thought-provoking contribution to the ongoing debate about the transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 138 x 217 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780567242730