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1. La catégorie morale de péché structurel. Essai de systématique.
	Auteur(s): Mathias Nebel Ecrire une thèse, c'est accepter de s'asseoir un temps parmi les morts. De longues heures flânées hors du monde dans bien des bibliothèques m'ont permis d'achever ce travail. Citons donc d'abords les mort - Arendt, Jaspers, Ricoeur, Balthasar, Rahner, Barth-, puis les vivants - Mynatty, Sievernisch, Revault d'Alonnes. Je les remercie pour avoir pu m'asseoir auprès d'eux et ansi apprendre à penser " aux racines des choses". Mathias Nebel Lees meer...
2. Modern Catholic Social Teaching. Commentaries and Interpretations
	Auteur(s): Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., editor; Lisa Sowle Cahill, Charles E. Curran, David Hollenbach, s.j., Thomas Shannon, associate editors. "This volume is intented as a reference work for anyone interested in studying the key documents of Catholic social teaching. It is presumed that readers will not go through this book cover to cover but will dip into the materials at various points to gain insight about some aspect of the Church's social teaching..." K.R. Himes Lees meer...

Publicaties van het Centrum

1. Catholic Social Thought: Twilight or Renaissance?
	Auteur(s): BOSWELL J.S., MCHUGH F.P., VERSTRAETEN J. This book contains 18 essays by (mostly European) Catholic intellectuals drawing on approaches ranging from public theology and social ethics, through political economy and sociology to thinking about policy. It takes the debate about Catholic social thinking beyond the discussion of papal social teaching to embrace the wider subject of non-offcial Catholic social thought. Lees meer...
2. De sociale ethiek van de Katholieke Kerk in de encyclieken van Leo XIII tot en met Johannes Paulus II
	Auteur(s): J. VERSTRAETEN en G. GINNEBERGE Eén van de belangrijkste inspiratiebronnen van de katholieke sociale ethiek zijn de pauselijke sociale encyclieken en de pastorale constitutie Gaudium et Spes. Het Centrum voor de studie van het katholieke sociale denken (K.U.Leuven) heeft hen in deze nieuwe tekstuitgave samen met een tweetal andere toonaangevende teksten (Octogesima adveneind en Evangelii Nuntiandi) verzameld en ingeleid. Lees meer...
3. Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times in the Light of the Gospel
	Auteur(s): Johan Verstraeten , ed Conscious of the need to revisit the pastoral constitution of Vatican II, the Centre for Catholic Social Thought at the Catholic University of Leuven has organised two international expert seminars. The discussion on the contemporary signs of the times revealed the necessity to clarify the theoretical and practical implicationsof the methodology of social discernment and particularly of a social mermeneutic in the light of the gospel . This became the theme of a scond expert seminar, the discussions of which are the backgrund to this book. Lees meer...

Andere publicaties

1. Care for creation: Human activity and the environment
	Auteur(s): Sister Marjorie Keenan, RSHM The environmental question is highly complex and embraces almost all fields of human endeavor. To proclaim the goodness of God's creation and our obligation to care for it is ultimately a call to change, to conversion, to care for the least and the poorest. Lees meer...
2. Work as Key to the Social Question
	Auteur(s): Johan Verstraeten, Michael J. Naughton and Simona Beretta ( eds) The Great Social and Economic Transformations and the Subjective Dimensions of Work. Proceedings of the Conference held September 12-15,2001. Rome and Vatican City Lees meer...
3. Rethinking the Purpose of Business
	Auteur(s): S.A. Cortright and Michael J. Naughton (eds) Interdisciplinary Essays from the Catholic Social Tradition Rethinking the Purpose of Business challenges reigning shareholder and stakeholder management theories using philosophical and theological dimensions of the Catholic social tradition. In this usefull book, contributors- including management theorists, moral theologians, economists, ethicists and attorneys-debate complicated issues such as the ethics of profit seeking,equity and efficiency in the firm, the shareholder value principle, social ethics of corporate management, the principle of subsidary, and modern contract theory. Lees meer...
4. Leiderschap met hart en ziel
	Auteur(s): Johan Verstraeten Dit boek biedt een visie op leiderschap die bewust afwijkt van wat op de meeste business-schools wordt gepropageerd: je vindt er geen managementtrukjes, geen Coca-Cola-cases of koude intellectuele oefeningen. Het biedt geen spiritualiteit voor dummies of Chicken Soup for Leaders . De auteur gaat uit van de paradox van deze tijd: hoe meer leiderschap noodzakelijk is, hoe minder onze cultuur vorming tot leiderschap mogelijk maakt. Stap voor stap wordt beschreven hoe het vermogen tot leiderschap wordt aangetast: verschraling van de taal, disconnectie, verlies van innerlijkheid en van afhankelijksrelaties in de werksfeer. Daarnaast wordt aangetoond langs welke weg opnieuw ruimten van vrijheid kunnen worden geschapen. Een herstel van het verstoorde evenwicht tussen actie en contemplatie maakt nieuwe creativiteit en een integrale spiritualiteit mogelijk. Lees meer...
5. From the Heart of the Church. The Catholic Social Tradition
	Auteur(s): Judith A. Merkle The book: A thoughtful analysis of the Catholic Church’s tradition of social thinking, with a welcome emphasis on spiritual aspects. Allied to a sharp critique of the existing social order is a well-focussed aim for social reconstruction. Part I deals with foundations; Part II examines the official social teaching; Part III offers prescriptions for reconstruction. The author: Judith A. Merkle, S.N.D. de N., Ph.d., an associate professor of religious studies at Niagara University, New York is also the author of Committed by choice (Liturgical Press, 1992) and A Different Touch: A Study of the Vows in Religious Life (Liturgical Press, 1998) Lees meer...
6. Ambivalence- Ambiguity- Postmodernity. Limiting Univocal Thinking
	Auteur(s): Peter Koslowski/Richard Schenk (Eds.) Vorwort Vor 400 Jahren begründete Descartes das Ideal des Denkes clare et distincte, das seitdem als das zu realisierende Ideal der Moderne gilt. Im Gegensatz zu diesem Ideal einer exakten modernen Wissenschaft ertönt in jungsten Zeit, gerade im postmodernen Denken, der Ruf nach einer Tolerierung oder gar Förderung der Ambivalenz auch in den Wissenschaft. Die Fruchtbarkeit von AMbivalenz und AMbiguität, die in der Kunst immer anerkannt war, findet auch in der Wissenschaft Beachtung. Lees meer...
7. Marx is dead, Jesus comes back
	Auteur(s): Pierre Deusy The book : Up to the collapse of the soviet block, the Catholic Church was trapped into an impossible choice between Capitalism and Marxism. In order not to favour the latter, which represented, so She believed, a more direct and radical threat, the Church only whispered its critics to Capitalism. In a world where no other serious alternative remains, will She be able to be both more vocal and more listened to? Will She become Capitalism’s best enemy? Lees meer...
8. L'Homme et son angoisse. La Théologie morale de Gaudium et Spes
	Auteur(s): Philippe Bordeyne Le programme de recherche sur Vatican II actuellement en cours s'orientent dans deux directions. La première, plus historique, privilégie l'analyse du concile comme "phénomène collectif aux diménsions inhabituelles", plutôt qu'une "reconstruction thématique, moins respectueuse du caractère concret de lévènement". La seconde estplus théologique. Son hypothèse de fond est que Vatican II permit à l'Eglise catholique de rencontrer la modernité et de s'interroger sur "la forme que prendrait la foi chrétienne dans le contexte d'une modernisation globale": l'interprétation appelle un travail interdisciplinaire, tant est complexe l'analyse des échanges entre christianisme et modernité. Lees meer...
9. Modern Catholic Social Teaching. The Popes Confront the Industrial Age 1740-1958.
	Auteur(s): Joe Holland The Industrial Revolution, with its bourgeois ideology of laissez-faire liberalism created by the modern Euro-pean Enlightenment, posed a strategic challenge to the Catholic Church. This history of Catholic Social Teaching begins by telling how the “pre-Leonine” popes (i.e., before Leo XIII) resisted the often anti-clerical bourgeois democratic movement of the Enlightenment and defended the aristocratic ancient regime of Euro-pean Christian Civilization against liberalism’s secularizing laissez-faire assault. Then the book narrates how these popes’ counter-revolutionary battle collapsed during the papacy of Pius X, and how the 1878 election of Pope Leo XIII brought a dramatic shift in papal strategy. Lees meer...
10. Globalization and Catholic Social Thought. Present Crises, Future Hope
	Auteur(s): John A. Coleman and William F. Ryan ( eds) A Timely and critical review of the relationship between globalization and Catholic social teaching Globalization has generated heated political, social, and cultural debate. To some it stands for a new era of communication, interconnection, and greater economic efficiency and benefits. For others, it means dislocation, marginalization, and the loss of cultural identity as well as little or negative economic impact. This volume asseses the meaning of globalization and the capacity of Catholic social thought to understand, reform, and guide it. Lees meer...
11. Responsability, God and Society. Theological Ethics in Dialogue : Festschrift Roger Burggraeve
	Auteur(s): Johan De Tavernier, Joseph Selling, Paul Schotsmans, Johan Verstraeten (eds) A generation of students at the Faculty of Theology of the K.U.Leuven have been introduced by Roger Burggraeve to the thoughts of Emmanuel Levinas. All those who attended Burggraeve's courses in fundamental moral theology have become familiar with the idea that "responsibility preceedes freedom". He incorporated Levinas's "me voici" , this view on responsabilty in his personal life : he outlined his ethics of growth, inviting people o aim towards human meaningfulness; but develops his ethics of realistic growth in the light of mercy. The ethics of minus bonum. Finally, in a remarkable tribute to his fellow Salesian, Xavier Thévenot, Burggraeve describes that humility is an intregal part of any ethical intervention. Lees meer...

Bibliografieën

1. Catholic Social Thought: Renovating The Tradition

Auteur(s): Francis P McHUGH The aim of the book is primarily to introduce students to religious and secular literature on Christian social thought, but to do so through a programme which will help to recover and rehabilitate a useful tradition of social thought qua theory. A further purpose is to attract secular thinkers to a critical exploration of a tradition of social thought which adjudicates the claims of modern secular reason and offers an alternative, long-reflected social awareness in moral thinking, one which has anticipated much of the recent theological turn in sociology. Lees meer...

Een bloemlezing uit de afgewerkte doctorale projecten.

1. Human dignity: beyond suspicion? On the meaning of Human Dignity for contemporary ethics.
	Auteur(s): David G. Kirchhoffer A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Doctor's Degree in Theology Lees meer...