Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is. Paul Adams

Church. I. Adams, Paul, 1943– II. Title.

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Dedicated to

      Kelli Steele Adams in love and gratitude

       and to

      Karen Laub Novak (1937–2009)

      for the energy that flows from her still.

MATERIAL ADAPTED AND USED WITH PERMISSION

      Chapters 1 and 2: “Defining Social Justice,” First Things (December 2000); “Three Precisions: Social Justice,” First Things (December 1, 2010).

      Chapters 3 and 4: “Hayek: Practitioner of Social Justice,” in Three in One: Essays on Democratic Capitalism, 1976–2000, ed. Edward Younkins (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001).

      Chapter 9: “Social Justice Redefined: Pius XI,” in The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Free Press, 1993).

      Chapter 10: “The Fire of Invention, the Fuel of Interest,” in The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997).

      Chapters 10 and 11: “Capitalism Rightly Understood,” in The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: The Free Press, 1993).

      Chapter 12: “Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas,” First Things (August 17, 2009).

      Chapter 13: “Agreeing with Pope Francis,” National Review Online (December 7, 2013).

CONTENTS

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Paul AdamsPART ONE The Theoryby Michael NovakDEFINITIONS, CONTEXT1 Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is2 Six Secular Uses of “Social Justice,”3 A Mirage?4 Friedrich Hayek, Practitioner of Social Justice5 Sixteen Principles of Catholic Social Thought: The Five Cs6 The Five Rs7 The Six SsTHE POPES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE8 Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum9 Forty Years Later: Pius XI10 American Realities and Catholic Social Thought11 Centesimus Annus: Capitalism, No and Yes12 Benedict XVI and Caritas in Veritate13 Pope Francis on Unreformed CapitalismFURTHER CHALLENGES14 A New Theological Specialty: The Scout15 Needed: A Sharper Sense of SinPART TWO In Practiceby Paul AdamsIntroduction Getting beyond Dichotomies16 Conscience and Social Justice17 Marriage as a Social Justice Issue18 Practicing Social Justice19 From Charity to Justice?20 Charity Needs Caritas—So Does Social JusticeEpilogue Social Justice: In the Vast Social Space between the Person and the State by Paul Adams and Michael NovakNotesIndex

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Paul Adams

PART ONE The Theory

       by Michael Novak

       DEFINITIONS, CONTEXT

1 Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is

2 Six Secular Uses of “Social Justice,”

3 A Mirage?

4 Friedrich Hayek, Practitioner of Social Justice

5 Sixteen Principles of Catholic Social Thought: The Five Cs

6 The Five Rs

       7 The Six Ss

       THE POPES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE

       8 Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum

       9 Forty Years Later: Pius XI

       10 American Realities and Catholic Social Thought

       11 Centesimus Annus: Capitalism, No and Yes

       12 Benedict XVI and Caritas in Veritate

       13 Pope Francis on Unreformed Capitalism

       FURTHER CHALLENGES

       14 A New Theological Specialty: The Scout

       15 Needed: A Sharper Sense of Sin

       PART TWO In Practice

       by Paul Adams

       Introduction Getting beyond Dichotomies

       16 Conscience and Social Justice

       17 Marriage as a Social Justice Issue

       18 Practicing Social Justice

       19 From Charity to Justice?

       20 Charity Needs Caritas—So Does Social Justice

       Epilogue Social Justice: In the Vast Social Space between the Person and the State by Paul Adams and Michael Novak

       Notes

       Index

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