That They Be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals 1740-1989

By Michael J. Schuck

Book Overview

A comprehensive historical study of the complete content and overall coherence of two and a half centuries of papal instructions that have variously aroused worldwide interest, scorn, fury, reaction, and consent. It provides the kind of analysis that concerned Roman Catholics, public officials, social ethicists, theologians, and students need. It is a textually inclusive and topically broad-gauged review of Catholic social teaching in its historical development, with a forthright assessment of its regrettable contradictions as well as of its valuable consistencies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878404899
• ISBN13: 9780878404896
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher