A Powerful essay on Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Economic Thought: What is going on? Beneath these apparent inconsistencies is there an underlying—if only emergent—theoretical unity? I think there is. By introducing three lines of argument represented here by historian William Leach, theologian William Cavanaugh, and philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, I hope to suggest that recent papal teaching has been neither confused, nor foolish, nor ignorant. Rather, that teaching should be understood as attempting to transcend the paradigms of what Pope Benedict referred to as the “binary logic of market-plus-state” by rethinking economics from the inside from a particular theological point of view.1 This point of view, which I will refer to as communio, also proposes an anthropology and is therefore not merely sectarian or “religious.” (via Pocket) -
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