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Debating God's Economy

Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II

by Craig Prentiss (rockhurst University)

  • Paperback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • 15.2 x 23 x 1.7 cm

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What would a divinely ordained social order look like? Pre-Vatican II Catholics, from archbishops and theologians to Catholic union workers and laborers on U.S. farms, argued repeatedly about this in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debating God's Economy is a history of American Catholic economic debates taking place during the generation preceding Vatican II. At that time, American society was rife with sociopolitical debates over the relative merits and dangers of Marxism, capitalism, and socialism; labor unions, class consciousness, and economic power were the watchwords of the day. This was a time of immense social change, and, especially in the light of the monumental social and economic upheavals in Russia and Europe in the early twentieth century, Catholics found themselves taking sides. Catholic subcultures across America sought to legitimize-or, in theological parlance, "sanctify"-diverse economic systems that were, at times, mutually exclusive. While until now the faithful-both scholars and nonscholars-have typically spoken of "the Catholic Social Tradition" as if it were an established prescription for curing social ills, Prentiss maintains that the tradition is better understood as a debate grounded in a common mythology that provides Catholics with a distinctive vocabulary and touchstone of authority.
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  • Author

    Craig Prentiss (rockhurst University)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Pennsylvania State University Press

  • Published

    February 2008

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 23 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780271058764

  • ISBN-10

    0271058765

  • Eden Code

    4077992

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