Article Title
The Economic Agenda of Catholic Social Teaching: The Framework for a Normative Social Theory
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The Catholic Church has developed a position on socio-economic issues during the past one hundred years as detailed in economically-minded papal encyclicals and related church documents. Included are several criteria that provide a framework for evaluating areas of economic policy. The Church’s mission has been to develop a normative social theory capable of integrating both theology and economic theory. The body of literature addressing the Church’s approach to socio-economic issues is known as Catholic Social Teaching, or CST. I will use CST to describe the Catholic platform of normative economic justice, its justification of social theory, and the potential economic reality of such goals.
Publication Date
Spring 2001
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
73
Last Page
87
Copyright
©2001 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Russell, Michael D.
(2001)
"The Economic Agenda of Catholic Social Teaching: The Framework for a Normative Social Theory,"
Major Themes in Economics, 3, 73-87.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol3/iss1/7