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Encyclopedia Publishes Work of UST Faculty
8/2/2007
 The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy has published articles by Dean of Arts and Sciences Dr. Dominic Aquila, Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. John Hittinger and former UST president Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB. The Encyclopedia reflects a broad range of issues and questions in Catholic social thought and offers insights into social issues from varying perspectives, including theological, philosophical, historical, economical, sociological and psychological.
Aquila wrote about historian Christopher Lasch, who dedicated his life’s work to assessing democracy and the kind of culture it creates. In a second article, Aquila discussed populism and how the political movement’s emphasis of the participation of citizens within a government is very much aligned with Catholic social teaching, particularly the emphasis on the dignity of the human person.
 Hittinger’s articles focused on Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain, French philosophers and disciples of St. Thomas Aquinas whose work created the intellectual climate that would eventually give rise to Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio.
Archbishop Miller wrote three articles in which he discussed two of Pope John Paul II’s encyclicals, Redemptor Hominis, the blueprint of Pope John Paul II’s papacy and Sollicitudo Rei Soicalis, written for the 20th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio.
 Many other prestigious scholars have contributed to the Encyclopedia, including Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Bishop Gaimpaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, the Rev. C. John McCloskey, Mary Ann Glendon, James Hitchcock, Mark Latkovic, William E. May, the Rev. Francis Canavan SJ, the Rev. Joseph Koterski SJ, Charles Rice, Ronald Rychlak, Russell Shaw and Paul Vitz.
The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy is published by Scarecrow Press Inc., a member of the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group.
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