Social Teaching of Catholic Church (ThM 573)
(01/10/2022-05/09/2022)
Prerequisite Courses
Course Memo
Rerum Novarum to Laudato Si: The Social Teachings of the Catholic Church
This course reviews all the major Church documents on social teaching. It emphasizes the integral connection between social justice and its moral foundations in Scripture and magisterial documents. There is a stress on Catholic social doctrine as praxis impelling. Students study the principles, values, criteria for judgment, and directives for action. Emphasis is placed on magisterial social teaching from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis.
Prerequisite: ThM 514.
Fall.
former title: Rerum Novarum to Caritas in Veritate, The Social Teachings of the Catholic Church
UTD: 10/5/05 ET
former title: Rerum Novarum to Centesimus Annus, The Social Teachings of the Catholic Church
from end of former description: from Leo XIII to John Paul II.
