Social Catholicism, Marxism and Liberation Theology: From Antithesis to Coexistence, Coalescence and Synthesis

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International Journal of Social Economics

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Social Catholicism, Marxism and Liberation Theology: From Antithesis to Coexistence, Coalescence and Synthesis

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Title:	Social Catholicism, Marxism and Liberation Theology: From Antithesis to Coexistence, Coalescence and Synthesis
Author(s):	Thomas O. Nitsch, (Greighton University, Omaha, Nebraska)
Citation:	Thomas O. Nitsch, (1986) "Social Catholicism, Marxism and Liberation Theology: From Antithesis to Coexistence, Coalescence and Synthesis", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 13 Iss: 9, pp.52 - 74
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.1108/eb014025 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	In previous efforts I have indicated that Social Catholicism, qua Roman-Catholic Social Economycs or Économie politique chrétienne, is now at the one and a half century mark, given its formal introduction with the publication of Charles de Coux's Essais d' économie politique at Paris/Lyon in 1832. This was soon to be followed by Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont's Christian Political Economy, or Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Poverty in France and Europe, etc, (1837), the subsequent founding of the Société d'Economie Sociale in 1856 and publication — inter alia — of La réforme sociale (1864) and Exposition of Social Economics (1867) by P. G. Frédéric Le Play; and, contemporarily, by the separate but related efforts of a host of other “thinkers and doers” to both the left or more radical (“Catholic/Christian-Socialist”) and the right or “individualist” (cum Christianised individuals!) of Le Play's more centrist-traditional (and, hence, “reactionary”) position. All this was well prior to the promulgation of the first great social encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (RN), in 1891.

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