 Preaching
Justice: DOMINICAN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO SOCIAL ETHICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Edited by Francesco Compagnoni OP
and Helen Alford OP
Preface by Gustavo Gutiérrez OP
Preaching Justice covers the work
of over 30 individual Dominicans, friars and laity, across
the troubled period of the twentieth century – ranging from friars who
went down the mines in the early 1900s, through lay Dominican
artists who developed radical social aesthetics, to a friar who
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958; and on to those who
resisted totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe,
military dictatorship in Brazil, and structural sin in
South Africa,
Preaching Justice looks also at major social theorists,
like Arthur Utz, Louis-Joseph Lebret, and Edward Krapiec
The Dominicans discussed here were deeply involved in all
the major political and socio-economic issues of their
day.
WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT PREACHING JUSTICE
‘As a Jesuit, I cannot but be amazed
by the monumental scope of this project. Not only does this
text document the contributions of Dominicans to Social Ethics
in the twentieth century; more importantly, it traces with
clarity and creativity the evolution of Catholic Social Thought
in varied concrete contexts across the globe: a fitting tribute
to the enduring legacy and relevance of the Dominican charism
in contemporary Church and society.’
Fr Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator sj, Hekima
College, Kenya |
