From Publishers Weekly
In 1983, U.S. Catholic bishops published The Challenge of Peace , a treatise on nuclear arms; in 1986, they brought out Economic Justice for All . Based on Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s prediction that the 1990s will be an era of social activism and reform, Berryman ( Liberation Theology ) believes that the time is ripe to "explicate" these pastoral letters and "their import for the United States." Writing with clarity and precision, he summarizes the documents and places them in a Catholic and American context. The book illuminates the bishops' forceful ideas on religious morality, the nuclear arms race (" 'May a nation threaten what it may never do?' ") and economic justice but is flawed by Berryman's predictably partisan commentary and by digressive discussions (e.g., a detailed critique of the bishops' relativism on nuclear deterrence in contrast to their absolutism on abortion).
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
