8_Historical Dev of CST Flashcards
one’s own future is one’s own responsibility
Self-direction
according to Tertullian is used in feeding the needy, in burying them, in support of youths and maidens destitute of means and deprived of their parents, in the care of the aged, and the relief of the shipwrecked
Deposits of Piety
The emerging ideologies of the modern time
Dark ages (Medieval period) vs Age of Enlightenment
The term “social doctrine” goes back to WHO and designates the doctrinal “corpus”
concerning issues relevant to society
Pope Pius XI
capability to rise from one social status to a better one depending on the effort one exerts
Social Mobility
According to Micah 6:8, the Lord requires of us:
o Only to do justice,
o To love mercy,
o To walk humbly with your God
Christ as a Liberator [2]
Christ heals and liberates people both from physical and spiritual illness.
Christ’s liberation is also at the same time a restoration (personal and communal).
Two Values Promoted by Capitalism
Social Mobility & Self-Direction
Marks the beginning of a new path. Grafting itself onto a tradition hundreds of years old, it signals a new beginning and a singular development of the Church’s teaching in the area of social matters”
Rerum Novarum
Ability to instruct one another on the social involvement
Early Christians
Socialism promotes two alternative principles:
Common ownership to replace and abolish the concept of private property
Personal freedom must be replaced by government control that seeks for the implementation of the common good
Christ’s teaching gives emphasis on —, and on the virtues of — over —
persons over the law
justice and charity over the legal code.
Continuing the catholic social teaching tradition
Middle ages
The early Christian community has endeavored to follow the examples of Christ
(1) Duty to give
(2) Deposits of piety
(3) Endeavor to establish unity and solidarity
The Church during the Middle Ages according to enlightenment thinkers values […] which are instruments of ignorance and oppression
faith and obedience
the virtue which inclines us to give to God and to man what is due to them
Justice
Christ Preaches the Kingdom of God
• Calls people for metanoia (conversion of heart)
• Conversion which is non-violent
• Hopeful preparation for its realization in the future
requires justice which is a “habit whereby man renders to each one his due by a constant and perpetual will”
Distribution of wealth by St. Thomas Aquinas
Two things are easily identified with the age of enlightenment:
(1) Use of reason (as opposed to faith)
(2) Autonomy (as opposed to obedience)
Enlightenment period brought about changes in the society including
Industrial revolution and two ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism
Christ’s liberation is also at the same time a
restoration (personal and communal)
date of industrial revolution
roughly 1760 to 1850
Just War (three requirement):
(1) Legitimate authority
(2) Just cause
(3) Right intention
year start of the modern social teaching of the church
1891 (to present)
It is not right for one to live in luxury while others live in want — under what and who said
Duty to give; Clement of Alexandria
