Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry

ISBN-13: 9781032229836 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Opis

This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate – and be illuminated by a deeper engagement with – the context of prisons.

Spis treści

Introduction

Elizabeth Phillips and Férdia J. Stone-Davis

Part I. CST informing prison ministry

1. Solidarity, Social Sin, and Prison Ministry

Kathryn Getek Soltis

2. Common Good and Prison: Where’s the Commonality? Where’s the Good?

Patrick Riordan

3. Prison, Work, and Human Dignity

Kevin Hargaden

Part II. Prisons informing CST

4. Sitting Where They Sit: A Theology of Vulnerability

Gerry McFlynn

5. Hope, Despair and Desistance: What Happens after People are Imprisoned as “Sex Offenders”?

Alice Ievins and Thea Thomasin Reimer

6. Prison Chaplains as Truthtellers: Speaking in, to, and about Prisons

Elizabeth Phillips

Part III. Critical perspectives on Prisons and CST

7. Prison Chaplaincy and Criminal Justice: A Critical and Creative Dialogue

Andrew Todd

8. ‘An Unchristian Institution’: Prison Chaplains and Penal Abolition

David Scott

9. Catholic Social Thought and Prisons: How Focus on Individual Reform Obscured the Collective Harms of Imprisonment

Keith Adams

O autorze

Elizabeth Phillips is Director of Education and Engagement at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK.

Férdia Stone-Davis is Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK.