40. Catholic Social Teaching: An Historical Perspective, by Roger Aubert. Preface by Charles E. Curran. Edited by David A. Boileau. Afterword by David A. Boileau: “Some Reflections on the Historical Perspectives of Catholic Social Teaching 2002.” ISBN 0-87462-692-7. ©2003. Paperbound. Index. 290 pp. $35
"During the last ten years, many meetings, seminars, conferences, and books have been conducted and written to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (May 15, 1891). We hope in this book to give the reader an historical background to this celebration. No other historian in Catholic circles enjoys the reputation of Canon Roger Aubert. Thus, we are presenting ten of his articles that have to do with Catholic social teaching. These articles give very measured descriptions of the struggles, defeats, and successes that mark the birth of Catholic social teaching. Their reading should produce great wonder and awe at the stance taken by the Church over the last one hundred years. That they have not been adhered to and that they are called 'our best kept secret' underlines the fact and the struggle that we all have to become truly Christian." — From the Editor's Preface by David A. Boileau
David A. Boileau (Ph.D., Louvain University, 1961), has been a member of the Philosophy faculty of Loyola University, New Orleans, since 1970. He specializes in Contemporary Ethics and in Social Justice Ethics and Theories. He has published articles on Discrimination, Equality and Social Justice. He recently published three volumes of essays on the Centennial of Louvain University's Higher Institute of philosophy. In 1988, he published a book on the Life and Philosophy of Cardinal Mercier, the founder of Louvain's Higher Institute of Philosophy. He is preparing a volume on Cardinal Mercier's philosophical essays as a study in Neo-Thomism. He teaches classes in Ethics, Neo-Thomism and the Philosophy of God. He is the President of the Alumni/ae of the Higher Institute of Philosophy at Louvain. In 1998 he edited Principles of Catholic Social Teaching (ISBN 0-87462-638-2) for Marquette University Press (204 pp., $25).
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