Catholic social teaching (CST) refers to the corpus of
authoritative ecclesiastical teaching, usually in the form of papal
encyclicals, on social matters, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's
Rerum Novarum (1891) and running through Pope Francis. CST is not a
social science and its texts are not pragmatic primers for social
activists. It is a normative exercise of Church teaching, a kind of
comprehensive applied - although far from systematic - social moral
theology. This volume is a scholarly engagement with this
130-year-old documentary tradition. Its twenty-three essays aim to
provide a constructive, historically sophisticated, critical
exegesis of all the major (and some of the minor) documents of CST.
The volume's appeal is not limited to Catholics, or even just to
those who embrace, or who are seriously interested in,
Christianity. Its appeal is to any scholar interested in the
history or content of modern CST.
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