A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching Art and Poetry and the Economy of Salvation

and the Economy of Salvation in Luke’s Gospel (Mohr Siebeck)

the son of a miner

Christopher Dawson (1889–1970) was a British Catholic historian and cultural scholar

a principle animated by a poetic disposition

Brannigan being Brannigan

A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching Art and Poetry and the Economy of SalvationEdited by Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph. D. Catholic Social Teaching (CST), the Social Doctrine of the Church, is frequently mentioned but seldom understood and applied aright. The writings of the popes, from Leo XIII onwards, are the authentic sources for the subject; their ideas have left a permanent mark on Catholic and secular thought alike. Neither platitudinous social commentary nor assertions of economic utopianism, CST takes seriously mans identity