Content

• Introduction; the context of the “Revolutions”; Lammenais and the Founding of Belgium
• An overview of Christian social thought in the 19th century, with a special focus on Rosmini and von Ketteler
• The beginnings of the “Catholic Movement”; the thought of Toniolo
• The First World War; the “Appello” of the “Partito Poplare Italiano”; the figure of Ceslaus Rutten;
• The 1920s and 1930s; Franziskus Stratmann and the peace movements
• Corporativism
• Maritain, Mounier, and the personalist movement
• Christian Democracy
• The beginning of the European Union; the thought of L. J. Lebret and development
• Theology of Liberation: G. Gutierrez
• The Economic thought of A. F. Utz
• Neoconservative thought; the ecology of Dominican sisters and the ecological thought of J. Kureethadam