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Catholicism and American Political Ideologies - Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism (Hardcover)
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Catholicism and American Political Ideologies - Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism (Hardcover)
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This book examines the perspectives of American liberalism and
conservatism in the new millennium-their general political and
social philosophy and their positions in leading public issue
areas-and evaluates them in light of Catholic social teaching.
Before making that evaluation, it sets out the Church's teaching as
it has been authoritatively set forth in documents from her
Magisterium-especially the social encyclicals. It looks to
recognized thinkers, writers, and spokesmen for each of the two
ideologies to determine what their general philosophy is in six
major, central areas: the role of the state; God, religion, and the
natural law as the basis of the political order; the family; the
thinking on freedom; the thinking about equality; and international
life and ethics. Since American conservatism has been known for
having different groupings or schools of thought within it-in the
new millennium these are traditionalist conservatism,
paleoconservatism, cultural or religious-based conservatism,
neoconservatism, libertarian conservatism, and TEA party
conservatism-the book examines leading representatives from each
grouping and then determines what the consensus conservatism
thinking is in each area. Then it looks to a recent platform of the
Democratic party that was acknowledged to be especially "liberal"
and one of the Republican party that was acknowledged to be
especially "conservative" (they were the 2012 platforms of each
party) to determine the thinking of each ideology on eight major
public issue/policy areas: economics and social welfare policy;
energy and the environment; civil rights and civil liberties;
education and health care; family policy; immigration policy; human
life issues; and foreign policy, defense, and disarmament. It
compares each ideology's thinking in these different areas of their
general political and social philosophy and their public
issue/policy positions and compares them to the basic principles of
Catholic social teaching, assessing how well each conforms to that
teaching in each area or if each clearly deviates and then coming
to an conclusion overall about which is closer to Catholic social
teaching.
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