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With an equal emphasis on every word in the title—and with a distinctly American perspective—Himes and his distinguished associate editors and contributors, have assembled the most thorough and authoritative assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching to date, likely to remain the touchstone volume for decades. This culmination of many years of effort by twenty stellar scholars has...

presents human history as a tale of humanity’s “combat with the powers of evil” (GS 37). Nevertheless, on balance, the dominant tone is better reflected in the Council’s confident assertion that “the achievements of the human race are a sign of God’s greatness and the fulfillment of his mysterious design” (GS 34). Clearly emboldened by the theology of dialogue that Pope Paul VI outlined in his first encyclical, Ecclesiam suam, the Council itself acknowledged the fruitfulness of a respectful dialogue
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