Religion and Public Life The Legacy of Monsignor John A. Ryan

by Kennedy, Robert G.; Athans, Mary Christine, B.V.M.; Brady, Bernard V.; McDonough, William C.; Naughton, Michael J.; Beckley, Harlen; Hehir, J Bryan; Grant, Philip; Stebbins, J Michael; Pawlikowski, John T.; Finn, Daniel Rush; Lutz, David W.; Platts, M J.;

• ISBN13: 9780761820918
• ISBN10: 0761820914
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-29
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Religion and Public Life is a collection of papers delivered at a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Msgr. John A. Ryan, who was the most prominent and influential American advocate of the Catholic social tradition in the first half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Reflections on the Life of Monsignor John A. Ryan	5	(6)
Harlan Beckley
John A. Ryan, John Courtney Murray, George Higgins, and the Catholic Social Tradition	11	(12)
J. Bryan Hehir
John A. Ryan and the Presidential Election of 1936	23	(8)
Philip Grant
John A. Ryan and Development in Catholic Economic Ethics	31	(86)
Theology and Prudence in John Ryan's Economic Ethics	35	(26)
Harlan Beckley
Toward a Developmental Understanding of the Common Good	61	(14)
J. Michael Stebbins
Papal Teaching on Economic Justice: Change and Continuity	75	(20)
John T. Pawlikowski
Catholic Social Thought on Property: An Urgent Need for Extension and Renewal	95	(22)
Daniel Rush Finn
Business Implications of John A. Ryan's Thought	117	(94)
Christian Social Thought and Corporate Governance	121	(20)
David W. Lutz
Limited Liability	141	(14)
M. J. Platts
Entrepreneurs and Markets: Contemporary Entrepreneurial Practice and Morality in Relation to the Thought of John A. Ryan	155	(10)
Michael J. Schuck
Francis T. Hannafey
John A. Ryan and Women's Wages: Still a Radical Stance?	165	(14)
Regina Wentzel Wolfe
Catholic Social Teaching on Women's Work and Wages: A Feminist Critique	179	(18)
Georgia Keightly
Can John Ryan's Economic Ethic Work for a Global Economy?	197	(14)
David A. Krueger
John A. Ryan and Public Policy	211	(116)
John A. Ryan, Public Policy, and the Quest for a Dignified Ecology of Work	215	(26)
Christine Firer Hinze
Two New Social Questions: The Uses of Molecular Medicine and the Reform of Health Care Finance	241	(20)
William J. Byron
Believers' Citizenship in John A. Ryan's Time and Today	261	(18)
John A. Coleman
The Legacy of John A. Ryan for a Multicultural Church and Society	279	(12)
Diana L. Hayes
The Contemporary Importance of Monsignor John A. Ryan and Catholic Social Thought	291	(8)
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
The Children of the Poor as Saving Remnant: John A. Ryan, Family Size, and the Common Good	299	(14)
John Berkman
John A. Ryan and the Catholic Association for International Peace (CAIP)	313	(14)
Patricia McNeal
John A. Ryan and the Relationship between Spirituality and Work	327	(38)
The Spirituality of John A. Ryan	333	(8)
Herwig Arts
Symposium on Spirituality
Carmelite Spirituality and Work	341	(6)
Gary M. Atkinson
Jesuit Spirituality and Work: A Confluence with Catholic Social Thought and Servant Leadership	347	(8)
Thomas A. Bausch
Integrating a Franciscan Spirituality of Work into Leadership in the Workplace	355	(10)
Richard Morton
Bibliography of Works by and about John Augustine Ryan	365
Betty Bigelbach