This is a two volume authoritative guide to the social teaching of the Catholic Church.

This first volume covers the period from Genesis to Centesimus Annus - Biblical times to the late nineteenth century. There has been a social teaching in the Judaeo-Christian tradition from the beginning, and it has continued to develop in the Christian tradition through the social witness and teaching of the Church through to the present time. Here is the Christian experience from Apostolic times, through the witness of the early Church Fathers and then Christendom in the Middle Ages, and the periods of absolutisms, imperialisms and revolutions in the early modern and modern world down to the end of the nineteenth century. Rodger Charles, S.J. has been researching, lecturing and writing in London, Oxford and San Francisco for over forty years.

Contents include:

• Scriptures and the early Church
• Western Christendom c. 604-1500:  The Social Role of the Church
• The Marginalization of the Church in the early modern world (c. 1500-1878):  absolutism, imperialism and revolutions

Volume 2 covers the modern period from Rerum Novarum to the present day.

472 pages.

Published by Gracewing, UK.  European customers wishing to purchase this title should contact Gracewing directly at www.gracewing.co.uk.