Catholic Social Learning, Expanded Edition
Educating the Faith That Does Justice
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
The award-winning and widely read first edition of Catholic Social Learning: Educating the Faith That Does Justice, published in 2011, described the critical edge of the tradition of justice pedagogy in Catholic higher education at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. But living traditions change in response to new challenges and develop their own resources more fully. The most obvious and compelling development in recent years has been the publication in 2015 of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home--the occasion for the new chapter-length afterword to this expanded edition of Catholic Social Learning. The urgent imperative to defend creation is a major but not the only reason for a new edition. Two new chapters, on the many forms of shame as a pedagogical issue and on the Book of Job and belief in a just world, add spiritual and theological depth to the original assessment of more than a decade ago. Those three additions comprise the totally new Part IV: The Critical Edge of the Tradition. A new preface sets the argument in the context of current controversies over the place of painful emotions in educational settings.
Endorsements (5)
“This is that rare volume whose medium and message move exquisitely in tandem. On practically every page, Roger Bergman inspires us to deeper reflection on effective education for justice, vocational development, and the entire process of social learning. Building upon its core themes of personal encounter, perspective transformation, and eliciting empathy for all, this book may well disrupt your accustomed perceptions of the ethical commitments required of all—starting with our student days and stretching across the lifespan.”
“Canvassing philosophers, poets, saints, social activists, and students, and drawing from the ancient-past or the now-present, an elite college campus or a poor campo community, Roger Bergman conveys the power of moral exemplars in our lives, as well as transformative experiences with the poor. These ‘encounterings’ build the foundations of curricula in peace, justice, and service programs that probe the mind, provoke the heart, and form global citizens of the best kind.”
“The Catholic university today more than ever needs to retrieve a more holistic teaching and learning model in which the intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation is central, and to retrieve its prophetic voice as an institution that models a more just response for the poor of the world rather than succumb to the seduction of neoliberalism and corporatization. Bergman leaves us to ponder that ‘people want to and have to believe that they live in a just world, so that they can go about their daily lives with a sense of trust, hope, and confidence in the future.’”
“How do we learn the rich but complex principles at the heart of Catholic social teaching? Read this book. Roger Bergman does a masterful job of integrating fields—from philosophy to social science—to build toward the book’s apropos title (which few others have addressed). New additions update an already remarkable early edition for the current moment. The work of justice is given new light and vision here, with wisdom for both educators and practitioners.”
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