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Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science

Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science

Finn, Daniel K.

Hardcover

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0190670053
ISBN13: 9780190670054
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 3 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The idea of the common good was borrowed by the Fathers of the early Catholic Church from the rich philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. It has been a fundamental part of Catholic thinking about social, political, and economic life throughout the Catholic intellectual tradition, from Augustine and Aquinas to modern Catholic social thought in the encyclicals of popes in recent centuries. Yet this history has been rooted in the traditions of philosophy and theology. With the rise of the social sciences in the nineteenth century as distinct disciplines no longer limited to the methods of their philosophical origins, humanity has learned a great deal more about the human condition. Empirical Foundations of the Common Good asks two questions: what have the social sciences learned about the common good? how might theology alter its understanding of the common good in light of that insight?

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