1st Edition
Conflict and Catholic Social Ethics An Interdisciplinary Approach
By Taylor J. Ott
Copyright 2025
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the question of how to understand conflict and its place in Catholic and Christian social ethics. The author examines Catholic social teaching (CST) for its explicit mentions of conflict or contention and analyzes the way that CST addresses the subjects of peace, labor, and environment. While CST offers precedent to think about conflict within the frame of Catholic ethics, its... Read more
Introduction
1 The Invisible Context: Conflict and Social Transformation in Catholic Social Teaching
2 Theorizing Conflict: Sociological Approaches
3 Ethics at the Crossroads: Conflict and Intersectional Feminism
4 Conflict in Catholic Social Thought: Pathways and Stumbling Blocks
5 Toward a Conflict Hermeneutic: Seeing Human Personhood and Relationship Through a Conflict Lens
6 Conflict in Focus: Adjunct Unions at Catholic Colleges and Universities
7 Conflict in Focus: Women’s Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Taylor J. Ott is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
