Lazarus at the Table: Catholic and Social Justice

by Evans, Bernard F.

• ISBN13: 9780814651148
• ISBN10: 0814651143
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Michael Glazier

Summary

Lazarus at the Table is the fruit of more than two decades of instructing students in the social teachings of the Catholic Church. For most of these years Bernard Evans has taught graduate students. Lately he also teaches educated lay Catholics engaged in parish ministry and enrolled in diocesan ministry formation programs. This book is written specifically for the latter group. Evans agrees with the bishops of the United States who insist that any Catholic education that does not include Catholic social teaching is not fully Catholic. And so he writes clearly, concisely, and convincingly about how Catholic social teaching addresses such contemporary issues as human dignity, abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, the death penalty, war, family, marriage, poverty, superfluous income, just wages, unions, peace, solidarity, and many more. Excerpts from the church's official teachings in papal documents abound throughout the book.

Author Biography

Bernard F. Evans holds the Virgil Michel Ecumenical Chair in Rural Social Ministries at Saint John's School of Theology Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
One Catholic Social Teaching	1	(10)
Biblical Foundation	2	(2)
Early Christian Writers	4	(2)
Historical Developments	6	(1)
The Beginnings	7	(2)
The Documents	9	(2)
Two Life and Dignity of the Human Person	11	(15)
Human Dignity	11	(7)
Threats to Human Dignity Today	18	(5)
Defending Human Dignity	23	(3)
Three Call to Family, Community, and Participation	26	(15)
Community/Society	26	(7)
Family	33	(4)
Participation	37	(4)
Four Rights and Responsibilities	41	(14)
Rights and Human Dignity	42	(2)
Rights and Healthy Communities	44	(2)
Responsibilities	46	(2)
Rights Under Threat	48	(7)
Five Option for the Poor and Vulnerable	55	(17)
Poverty	56	(5)
Sharing/Giving	61	(4)
Preferential Option	65	(4)
Responding to Poverty	69	(3)
Six The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers	72	(16)
Human Work	73	(5)
Workers' Rights	78	(6)
Protecting the Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers	84	(4)
Seven Solidarity	88	(16)
One Human Family	89	(2)
Our Brothers' and Sisters' Keepers	91	(2)
Seeking a Just Social Order	93	(2)
Globalization	95	(1)
Subsidiarity	96	(2)
Peace	98	(2)
Everyone's Responsibility	100	(4)
Eight Care for God's Creation	104	(14)
Creation is God's	105	(1)
Creation is Good	106	(4)
Humans and Creation	110	(8)
Epilogue Meeting Lazarus	118
Living Catholic Social Teachings	118	(4)
Tapping the Resources	122	(2)
Reading the Documents	124