Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.

No one brings the worlds of social activism and the academy together with more energy, invention and style than Anna Rowlands. ... [The book] is a fluent and polyphonic introduction to the Catholic vision of the good life.

• IntroductionChapter 1The Emergence of Modern Catholic Social TeachingChapter 2 Human Dignity: philosophical and theological trajectoriesChapter 3 Human Dignity: and (forced) migrationChapter 4 Human Dignity: the question of social and structural sinChapter 5 The Common Good: the long tradition in contextChapter 6 The Common Good: in patristic and medieval contextChapter 7 The Common Good: the encyclical traditionChapter 8 The body politic and the political communityChapter 9 Subsidiarity: a principle of participation and social governanceChapter 10 Solidarity: a developing theoryChapter 11 The universal destination of goods: towards an integral ecology ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.

No one brings the worlds of social activism and the academy together with more energy, invention and style than Anna Rowlands. ... [The book] is a fluent and polyphonic introduction to the Catholic vision of the good life.

• IntroductionChapter 1The Emergence of Modern Catholic Social TeachingChapter 2 Human Dignity: philosophical and theological trajectoriesChapter 3 Human Dignity: and (forced) migrationChapter 4 Human Dignity: the question of social and structural sinChapter 5 The Common Good: the long tradition in contextChapter 6 The Common Good: in patristic and medieval contextChapter 7 The Common Good: the encyclical traditionChapter 8 The body politic and the political communityChapter 9 Subsidiarity: a principle of participation and social governanceChapter 10 Solidarity: a developing theoryChapter 11 The universal destination of goods: towards an integral ecology ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.

No one brings the worlds of social activism and the academy together with more energy, invention and style than Anna Rowlands. ... [The book] is a fluent and polyphonic introduction to the Catholic vision of the good life.

• IntroductionChapter 1The Emergence of Modern Catholic Social TeachingChapter 2 Human Dignity: philosophical and theological trajectoriesChapter 3 Human Dignity: and (forced) migrationChapter 4 Human Dignity: the question of social and structural sinChapter 5 The Common Good: the long tradition in contextChapter 6 The Common Good: in patristic and medieval contextChapter 7 The Common Good: the encyclical traditionChapter 8 The body politic and the political communityChapter 9 Subsidiarity: a principle of participation and social governanceChapter 10 Solidarity: a developing theoryChapter 11 The universal destination of goods: towards an integral ecology ConclusionBibliographyIndex