Prof. Franz Josef Stegmann Bethlehem Social ... - Ordo Socialis

Stegmann
Table of Contents
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL TEACHING — WHAT IS IT?................................................... 4
FAITH AND THE SECULAR WORLD, CHRISTIAN.................................................. 4
UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN BEING, .......................................................... 4
AND SOCIAL PRINCIPLES....................................................................................... 4
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................. 4
1. AUTONOMY IN SECULAR FIELDS OF LIFE...........................................................................................5
1.1 No direct political mission of the Church..................................................................................................... 5
1.2 "Autonomy of earthly affairs"...................................................................................................................... 6
1.3 From a "divinised" to a "hominised" world.................................................................................................. 7
1.4 Politics, economics and "knowledge of facts".............................................................................................. 8
2. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
ACTION............................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Political and social dimensions of Jesus' message...................................................................................... 10
2.2 Christian responsibility for the world......................................................................................................... 11
2.3 "Critical function" of Christian revelation and Church .............................................................................. 11
2.4 Removal of inhumane social conditions..................................................................................................... 12
3. CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN BEInG AS A PERSON ....................................... 12
3.1 The human being - image of God............................................................................................................... 13
3.2 Basic equality, of human beings................................................................................................................. 14
3.3 Main Christian attitudes - "Eschatological reservation"............................................................................. 14
3.4 "New quality" of ethical rules .................................................................................................................... 14
4. SOCIAL PRINCIPLES: SOLIDARITY AND SUBSIDIARITY ............................................................... 15
4.1 The principle of solidarity .......................................................................................................................... 15
4.2 The principle of subsidiarity....................................................................................................................... 16
5. DEVELOPMENT AND TASK OF CHRISTIAN SOciAL TEACHING................................................... 17
5.1 Christian Social Teaching is as old as the Church itself............................................................................. 17
5.2 Scholarly research ...................................................................................................................................... 18
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................................................... 18
SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY AND ....................................................................... 20
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL TEACHING* .......................................................................... 20
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................... 20
1. NEOLIBERAL UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY ............................................ 20
1.1 Competition of achievement and efficiency............................................................................................... 21
1.2 Social conditions and elements .................................................................................................................. 21
2. NEOLIBERAL REFORMS COMPARED WITH CLASSICAL ECONOMIC
LIBERALISM/CAPITALISM........................................................................................................................... 22
2.1 Neoliberalism - what is it?.......................................................................................................................... 22
2.2 Main neoliberal reform approaches............................................................................................................ 24
3. SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY AND CHRISTIAN SOCIAL TEACHING .......................................... 26
3.1 The Catholic Church and Market Economy ............................................................................................... 26
3.2 Main aspects of a critical judgement of Social Market Economy from the perspective of Christian Social
Teaching........................................................................................................................................................... 28
3.2.1 Christian Social Teaching agrees with the concept of economic competition.................................... 28
3.2.2 The understanding of freedom and the priority of the economy in neoliberalism needs to be criticised
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