INTRODUCTION:

DEVELOPMENT OF
THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH
 OBJECT OF
SOCIAL
DOCTRINES

CRITICAL
REFLECTION ON:
THE EXISTING
SOCIAL
STRUCTURES
& COLLECTIVE
ACTION
DIRECTED
TOWARDS:

REFORM AND
ESTABLISHMENT
OF NEW
STRUCTURES

HUMANIZATION OF
STRUCTURES:
JUSTICE,
FREEDOM, HUMAN
RIGHTS AND
EQUALITY
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH’S
UNDERSTANDING
OF HER SOCIAL MISSION
 EARLY HISTORICAL
DEVELOPMENT

1. BIBLE: PRIMARY
SOURCE OF CATHOLIC
SOCIAL ETHICS
 E.G.
ORIGIN OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

EXPERIENCE OF A COMMUNITY
THE NEED FOR NORMS AND GUIDELINES
TO SAFEGUARD THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE
 THE BIBLE
IS AN IMPORTANT
SOURCE OF SOCIAL
ETHICS BUT: DEALS
WITH
A SPECIFIC TEACHING;
MAN’S SALVATION

HENCE: NOT
PRIMARILY
INTERESTED IN
METHODOLOGICAL
AND SYTEMATIC
APPORACH TOWARDS
2. FIRST 1 THOUSAND
YEARS

MOVEMENT
TOWARDS:
SYSTEMATIC AND
SCIENTIFIC
UNDERSTANDING OF
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN: SECULAR
AND SACRED

SEPARATION
BETWEEN
CHURCH AND STATE
 THE GREGORIAN
REFORM (ca1050-
108O)

UNDER GREGORY VII,

THE CHURCH
SOUGHT
INDEPENDENCE
FROM THE STATE

THE PAPACY IS
REGARDED AS HAVING
MONARCHIAL POWER
OF ITS OWN.

INTERNALLY,
THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE CHURCH
BECAME
3. EARLY PART OF THE 2ND MILLENIUM:

THE ORIGIN OF UNIVERSITIES.

MORE SYSTEMATIC AND SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE
SAINT TOMAS AQUINAS: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
 THE UNDERSTANDING OF JUSTICE

IN KEEPING WITH MAN’S SOCIAL NATURE:

BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS
INDIVIDUALS AND STATE
STATE AND INDIVIDUALS
4. 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
GROWTH OF
ENLIGHTENMENT

EMPHASES:
THE INDIVIDUAL,
HUMAN REASON AND
HUMAN FREEDOM

THAT IS TOTALLY CUT-OFF

FROM RELATIONSHIP TO
GOD AND GOD’S LAW.
 AFFECTED CATHOLIC
SOCIAL TEACHING AND
SOCIAL LIFE

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

IS STRONGLY OPPOSED
TO:
a. PHILOSOPHICAL
LIBERALISM

STRESSED
FREEDOM OF
INDIVIDUAL
AND POWER OF
HUMAN REASON

DIVORCED FROM
ANY RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD
 b. RELIGIOUS
LIBERALISM

CATHOLICISM SAW
CONNECTION BETWEEN
PROTESTANTISM AND
ENLIGHTENMENT

BY EXTOLLING
CONSCIENCE AND
FREEDOM OF
INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER:

THE INDIVIDUAL WAS

SEPARATED FROM THE
IMPORTANT
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
CHURCH AND HER
c. POLITICAL
LIBERALISM

STRESSED THE ROLE

OF INDIVIDUAL
CITIZENS,
DECISIONS MADE
BY THE MAJORITY

WITHOUT
CONSIDERATION
GIVEN TO GOD’S LAW
 d. ECONOMIC LIBERALISM

ALLOWED THE ENTREPRENEUR TO DO WHATEVER

HE/SHE WANTS IN PURSUIT OF PROFIT.

NO CONCERN FOR OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE

ENTERPRISE