Catholic Social Teaching, MacIntyre’s Social Theory, and Global Development
Scott Thomas Monday, 29 November 2010
International relations have changed dramatically since the Second Vatican Council, yet there are remarkable continuities in Catholic social teaching and its approach to global development. The changing signs of the times are now apparent: the global resurgence of religion, the spread of globalization, emerging great powers, and the changing nature of conflict and security. During the heady, optimistic times of the 1960s, one of the often overlooked aspects of the magesterial documents was the importance they accorded to culture and religion vis-a-vis the Church's conception of integral human development. The roles of culture and religion in global economics are even more explicit in contemporary Catholic social thought, as can be seen in Benedict XVI's recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate, which offers a decidedly moral perspective on the global market economy.
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