Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy

✍ Scribed by Jay P. Corrin

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 582
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this sweeping volume, Corrin discusses the influences of Cecil and G. K. Chesterton, H. A. Reinhold, Hilaire Belloc, and many others on the development of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, with a special focus on Belloc and Reinhold as representatives of reactionary and progressive positions, respectively. He also provides an in-depth analysis of Catholic Distributists' responses to the labor unrest in Britain prior to World War I and later, in the 1930s, to the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War and the forces of fascism and communism.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: European Catholics Confront Revolution
Chapter 2: The Development of Catholic Social Action in Nineteenth-Century England
Chapter 3: Leo XIII and the Principles of Rerum Novarum
Chapter 4: The Appearance of the "Chesterbelloc"
Chapter 5: Against the Servile State
Chapter 6: Distributism and British Politics
Chapter 7: The New Distributists
Chapter 8: The Appeal of Fascism
Chapter 9: Early Catholic Critics of Fascism
Chapter 10: Social Catholicism and the Career of H. A. Reinhold
Chapter 11: American Catholics Move to the Right
Chapter 12: The Religious Crusade in Spain
Chapter 13: Against the Tide: The Catholic Critics of Franco
Chapter 14: Completing the Circle
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index