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_cDLC
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050 _aBX 1753
_b.C24 2012
100 _aCartagenas, Aloysius Lopez.
_946085
245 0 _aUnlocking the church's best kept secret :
_bprinciples for the interpretation, communication, and praxis of Catholic social teaching /
_cAloysius Lopez Cartagenas.
264 _aQuezon City :
_bAteneo de Manila University Press,
_c©2012.
300 _axiv, 279 pages
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1996.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aFew of us have thought of applying the historical-critical study of the Bible to the Catholc Church's social teaching. This body of teachings has always been surrounded by the aura of infallibility and its formulation shrouded in secrecy, prompting the label the Church's best kept secret." Moreover, it has been recently compiled into an official compendium of social doctrines ready for application throughout the world. Applying the methods of biblical scholarships, the author rejects this view and argues that "both the 'Catholic social teaching' and the 'Catholic social thought and praxis' that make up the one Catholic Social Tradition is rather in a period of transition. It will not be open to a new future unless it courageously faces up to the challenges of interpretation, communication, and practice." He takes us along in the study of these three challenges using three guidelines: the insights of Paul Ricoeur's theory of interpretation, Jürgen Habermas's study of communicative reason and action, and finally Alasdair MacIntyre's development of a theory of practice. The overall result is fascinating as the author proposes three corresponding sets of principles crucial to "unlocking" the future of the Catholic Social Tradition. The book is a fruit of enormous study and dedicated labor. I highly recommend it and join the author's "prophetic-utopian" and "praxis-prescriptive" call to "act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with God" (Micah 6:8)." Prof. Dr. Lode Lucas Wostyn, Maryhill School of Theology (Source: http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress)
650 _aCatholic Church
_2sears
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650 _aChristian sociology
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942 _cFIL
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