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La justice sociale en question ?
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ISBN: 2802800442 2802803093 9782802800446 Year: 2019 Volume: 5 Publisher: Bruxelles : Presses de l’Université Saint-Louis,

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« Justice sociale » est pour tous aujourd’hui le nom d’un malaise et d’une tâche sans fin. Ce problème général, des praticiens l’ont relancé avec insistance durant deux années auprès d’amis engagés dans la recherche et l’enseignement en sciences humaines et morales. Les visées différentes ont fait apparaître d’abord que les solutions proposées et pratiquées au nom d’une doctrine politique ou économique restent de portée fort brève et engendrent ou accroissent souvent un climat de scepticisme, que ne compense pas le courage pourtant réel de l’action. De plus, en posant sérieusement la question de la justice sociale, chacune des disciplines ici concernées se voit obligée de reconnaître son enracinement dans deux évidences : la première, qu’il n’y a pas de limite supérieure à la dépense quand il s’agit d’assurer plus de dignité humaine; la seconde, qu’il faut que cette dépense soit efficace. Le savoir théorique tend par nature à séparer ces deux évidences en les rationalisant. Par contre, ceux que leur tâche quotidienne voue à promouvoir l’efficacité de la dépense perdent facilement de vue l’invitation dynamique que constitue l’infini de l’égale dignité pour tous. Puissent ces textes en leur incontestable naïveté amorcer un échange actif entre praticiens et théoriciens.

Prophetic & public : the social witness of U.S. Catholicism
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ISBN: 1589013972 1435627164 9781435627161 1589010825 9781589010826 1589010825 9781589010826 9781589013971 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,

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The United States was founded on a commitment to religious tolerance. Based on this commitment, it has become one of the most religiously diverse and religiously observant liberal democracies in the world. Inherent in this political reality is the question, What is the appropriate relationship between religious beliefs and public life? This is not a new question, but in contemporary U.S. politics it has become a particularly insistent one. In this intelligent, wide-ranging book, Kristin Heyer provides new and nuanced answers.Prophetic and Public employs the discourse of public theology to cons


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God and the financial crisis : essays on faith, economics, and politics in the wake of the great recession
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ISBN: 1443888370 9781443888370 1443885967 9781443885966 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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A fundamental belief in personal liberty and in the ability of free markets to realise the good lies at the heart of the neoliberal economic orthodoxy that has now shaped public policy for a generation. Confidence in orthodox economics has, however, been badly shaken by the financial crisis of 2008 and, in the years following, by the effects of the Great Recession. The era of casino banking was not only an era of de-industrialisation and under-employment, but also of iniquitous tax avoidance schemes, and of grotesquely inflated levels of social inequality. Such factors, we now realise, have re


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Turning to the world : social justice and the common good since Vatican II
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ISBN: 0773556222 9780773556225 9780773556232 0773556230 9780773555266 0773555277 9780773555273 Year: 2018 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was a watershed event in the history of the Catholic Church, a critical self-examination that sought at once to rediscover the most ancient sources of Christian thought and practice and to bring these traditions into the modern world. While few question the idealism and vision of Vatican II, its legacy is contested. Has the Catholic Church fulfilled the promise of the council? Has it successfully reclaimed the scriptural call to justice? Has it truly shifted its gaze to the "joys and hopes, grief and anguish" of our troubled world? Reflecting on both the vision of the council and its uneven reception, Turning to the World ponders the impact of Vatican II on interreligious dialogue, peace-building, and care for the environment. Focusing specifically on the Canadian and Latin American experiences, contributors work from diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine developments in the Catholic Church's understanding of freedom, conscience, and the common good. The volume also appraises the effects of the Church's turn to the world in its hope to voice the pressing needs of the human family, especially in contexts of great poverty and injustice and among peoples adversely affected by the modern and postmodern economies of greed. Exploring the legacy of Vatican II, Turning to the World offers a unique perspective on the influence, reception, developments, and applications of the council from the 1960s to the teachings of Pope Francis.

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