Five Page summaries
JOHN A. RYAN INSTITUTEFive Page Summaries of Papers Presented,
Ordered by Session:
I. SEMINAR SESSIONS
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RICHARD SCHENK, O.P.,
Officium signa temporum perscrutandi. Encounters of Faith and Culture
LIEVEN BOEVE,
“Interpreting the Signs of the Times” Catholic Social Teaching and Postmodernity: A Matter of Adaptation or Not
JOHN MILBANK,
The Distribution of Gifts
ELIZABETH SALAS,
“The Law of the Gift”: A Personalist Account of Gaudium et spes, 24
LAURA BARITZ, O.P. and DR. TAMÁS KOCSIS,
On Realizing the Principles of Gaudium et spes in a Post-Communist Country
OLEG BRESKY,
The Reception of Gaudium et spes in the Construction of Eastern Europe
THOMAS HONG-SOON HAN,
Ecological Solidarity Between Catholicism and the Asian Religions
MORIS POLANCO,
Gaudium et spes and the Ecological Awareness of our Time
MICHAEL D. BEATY,
Protestant Free Church Christians and Gaudium et spes:: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective
SCOTT H. MOORE,
Not the ‘Free’ Church in the Modern World? Response to Objections
DOUGLAS V. HENRY,
Why We Can’t Wait — Freedom, the Protestant Free Church, and Gaudium et spes
MARTIN MCKEEVER, C.SS.R.,
God’s Justice? Right Reason? Justice and Rationality in Catholic Social Teaching in the Light of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Conception of Traditions of Enquiry
SCOTT THOMAS,
Whose Development, Which Rationality: Gaudium et spes, Catholic Social Thought, and International Development Policy after MacIntyre
PAUL DEMBINSKI and PIERGIORGIO GAWRONSKI,
Development — Is There Hope Left
SÉVERINE DENEULIN,
Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to Development and Gaudium et spes:: On Political Participation and Structural Solidarity
SEAN HEALY, S.M.A. and BRIGID REYNOLDS, S.M.,
Rooting the Catholic Social Thought Perspective in the National Consciousness and in the Development of Social Policy: An Irish Experience
WILLIAM RYAN, S.J.,
The Legacy of Gaudium et spes in Canada (1965-1990)
II.SEMINAR SESSIONS
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PHILIPPE BORDEYNE,
L’appel à la justice face au désir d’être plus homme. L’apport de Louis-Joseph Lebret la redaction de Gaudium et spes
ROBERTO PAPINI,
Jaques Maritain and the Second Vatican Council
ALBINO BARRERA, O.P.,
Gaudium et spes and Catholic Ethics in Post-Industrial Economics: Indirect Employers and Globalization
PRAKASH SETHI and DAVID LOWRY,
Creating a Just Society in an Economically Integrated Post-Nation-State World: The Role of Church in the 21st Century World: Past as Prologue for the Future
REV. MICHAEL PLACE,
Who Do You Say I Am: How Vatican II is Still Changing Catholic Health Care
SHELIA HOLLINS,
Forgotten People: Examining Issues of Justice and Social Inclusion with Respect to People with Intellectual Disabilities
DANIEL FINN,
Faith-Based Community Organizations: A Transforming Presence of the Church in the Modern World
SALVADOR JUNE P. LALISAN,
The Couples for Christ Movement: A Model for Authentic Social Action Grounded within the Framework of Catholic Social Doctrine
MARILYN MARTONE,
Women and Justice
CHRISTINE FLETCHER,
Trinitarian Theology, Equality, and Social Ethics: A Study of Sayers and LaCugna
ROBERT DEFINA and BARBARA WALL,
Economic and Philosophical Reflections on Private Wealth
ANDREW YUENGERT,
More of What is Better? Material Goods in Economic Theory and Catholic Social Thought
JOHN HAUGHEY, S.J.,
With Human Rights “The New Humanism” is Half-Way There
REV. RAPHAEL GALLAGHER,
From Conciliar Text to Moral Contexts. A Methodological Reflection
REV. DOMÈNEC MELÉ and MIGUEL GALLO,
Social Mortgage of the Property in Family Businesses
HENDRIK OPDEBEEK,
The Phenomenon of Boredom in Labour and Consumption and the Vocation to Be a Fully Human Being. The Rediscovery of the Value of Spirituality in Contemporary Society
III.SEMINAR SESSIONS
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KENNETH HIMES, O.F.M.,
The Catholic Vision of Peace after Gaudium et spes
JOHN LANGAN, S.J.,
Gaudium et spes and Militant Radical Islam
J. ROBERT OUIMET,
How Spirituality in Management Works: To Reconcile Human Well-Being with Productivity and Profits
REV. ROBERT SIRICO,
The Economics of the Modern World
PETER HENRIOT, S.J.
A Church in the Modern World of Africa: The Zambian Experience
JUDE NJOKU,
Gaudium et spes and the Changes in Socio-Economic Thinking: Forty Years After
ALESSANDRO GAMBA and STEFANO ALBERTO,
Justice and Justification: The New Life in Christ
AMY UELMEN,
Toward a Theory of Justice within Trinitarian Theology
JEAN-YVES CALVES, S.J.,
Gospel and Society. Man as Social Being in the Image of God Who is All “Communion.” How to Do This View in the Future
REIMUND BIERINGER and MARY ELSBERND, O.S.F.
Interpreting the Signs of the Times in Light of the Gospel. Vision and Normativity of the Future
KATARINA SCHUTH, O.S.F.
Transmission of the Catholic Social Teaching of Gaudium et spes: The Role of Seminaries in Preparing Knowledgeable Priests
MICHAEL SCHUCK,
Parenting the Church: Mothers, Fathers, and Catholic Social Thought
CHARLES REID,
Protection of Rights and the Maxims of the Law: From Gratian to Gaudium et spes
GIANNI MANZONE,
For a Technology with a Human Face
MATEO GARR, S.J.,
Gaudium et spes and the Struggle for Human Rights in Peru
LUIS GARCÍA ECHEVERRÍA,
Efficiency with Social Justice: The Challenge Remains
IV.SEMINAR SESSIONS
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REV. ALEJANRO LLORENTE,
La ética del don: un camino necesario de la economía. Reflexiones a la luz de Gaudium et spes, 35
EVERALDO LOPES DE ANDRADE,
La Dimensión Ético-cultural del Trabajo Humano en el Contexto del Concilio Vaticano II. La Redención del Trabajo Libre y del Ocio Criativo en la Posmodernidad
EDMOND MALINVAUD,
Duty of Democracies to Care More About Intergenerational and International Solidarities
WILSON MISCAMBLE C.S.C.,
Gaudium et spes and Catholic Politicians — Some American Case Studies
KEVIN AHERN,
The Role of International Catholic Organisations in Promoting the Gospel in the “Community of Nations”
NICOLETTA PARISI,
International Governance between Participation and Legality
DAVID ANDREWS C.S.C.,
Artists of a New Humanity, Defenders of Nature: Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment, Food and Agriculture in the Context of Globalization
IGNAZIO MUSU,
International Aspects of Sustainable Development: A New Challenge to the Catholic Social Thought
MARGARET ATKINS,
Clarifying the Common Good
PATRICK RIORDAN, S.J.,
Civil Society, Popular Political Culture and the Church
GIL BAILE,
Changing the Subject:: Gaudium et spes and the Mystery of the Human Person
GREGORY COULTER,
Gaudium et spes: Atheism, Culture and Christian Faith
BERNARD D’SAMI,
The Impact of Gaudium et spes on the Social Mission of the Church in Asia with Particular Reference to the Catholic Workers and Student Movements
ERNEST KÖNIG,
Gaudium et spes — its Validity and its Implementation. The Contribution of the Conference of International Catholic Organisations
MATHIJS LAMBERIGTS,
The Legacy of Gaudium et spes
MATHIAS NEBEL,
Signs of the Times and Structures of Sin
