Western European Liberation Theology: The First Wave (1924-1959)

Contents......Page 8
List of Plates......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
A Vicar in Laken......Page 16
The Condition of Young Workers in Belgium......Page 19
The Innovative Spirit of the KAJ/JOC......Page 23
From Social to Spiritual Engagement......Page 29
The Birth of the French JOC......Page 33
Divergent Paths in Belgium and France......Page 36
Inner Dynamic towards the Left......Page 39
Defending the Catholic Faith in the Nineteenth Century......Page 41
The Social Doctrine of the Church......Page 45
Italian Catholic Action......Page 49
Catholic Action and Political Action......Page 52
‘Autonomous Beings’......Page 56
Learning Self-Expression......Page 61
The Crisis of Modernism......Page 65
The New Christendom, Mark I......Page 67
The Primacy of the Spiritual......Page 70
A Second Renaissance......Page 73
A New Mysticism......Page 77
The Mystical Body of Christ......Page 80
Catholic Action and the Mystical Body of Christ......Page 83
The Competition of Mystiques......Page 87
From a Reinterpretation of the Past towards a Design for the Future......Page 90
Towards a Theology of the Laity......Page 92
The Promotion of the Laity......Page 95
Jacques Maritain......Page 100
The New Christendom, Mark II......Page 103
The Socialist Alternative......Page 106
The Personalism of Emmanuel Mounier......Page 109
Anarchism, Communism, and the New Left......Page 112
Marie-Dominique Chenu......Page 114
Towards a Theology of Labour......Page 117
The ‘First’ Christian Democracy......Page 121
Christian Socialism in Post-War Germany......Page 124
A Catholic Shift to the Left: Belgium and France......Page 127
Il Gruppo Dossettiano......Page 131
The Birth of the Sinistra Cristiana......Page 135
Marxism and Catholicism......Page 136
Forging an Anti-Fascist Consensus?......Page 141
The Road towards Self-Dissolution of the PSC......Page 144
The Achievements of the Christian Communists......Page 145
The Partito Cristiano-Sociale......Page 147
The Organizational Trajectory of the PCS......Page 152
Don Primo Mazzolari......Page 155
A Preacher in the Piazza......Page 157
Preparing an Event......Page 160
The Convegno delle Avanguardie Cristiane......Page 162
Don Primo’s Kreuzweg......Page 166
Don Zeno Saltini......Page 167
The Schedule of an Agitator......Page 170
Creating Piccoli Apostoli: Nomadela......Page 176
The Movement of Human Fraternity......Page 178
Another Stillborn Revolution......Page 182
Franco-Belgian Cooperation......Page 186
The Ligue Ouvrière Chrétienne......Page 188
Assuring Food on the Table......Page 191
Production and Fashion......Page 194
Squatting......Page 196
Women in the MPF......Page 198
The Mouvement and French Communism......Page 204
The Case of Saint-Étienne......Page 209
Efforts at United Fronts......Page 212
Take-Off and Deconfessionalization......Page 214
The High Point of MPF Influence......Page 218
Post-1945 Decline......Page 221
A Rival Organization Sponsored by the Church......Page 224
The Belgian MPF......Page 225
Belgian Critics of Tradition......Page 236
La France: Pays de Mission?......Page 238
Cardinal Suhard......Page 243
The Mission de France......Page 246
Cultural Immersion......Page 253
The Mission de Paris......Page 257
Constructing Christian Communities......Page 263
A Fascination with Community......Page 272
From Community Focus to Workplace Orientation......Page 276
French Underground Priests in Nazi Germany......Page 281
Mission de Belgique......Page 283
The Gleichschaltung of the Worker Priests......Page 286
The Taming of the Mission de France......Page 291
The Mission Ouvrière......Page 298
An Aggiornamento of the Catholic Church?......Page 300
Two Waves of Progressive Catholicism......Page 302
European Influence on Latin American Liberation Theology......Page 304
The Dialectic of History......Page 307
Bibliographic Essay......Page 314
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