Social Catholicism: Birth and Tradition of Solidarism

Abstract

In previous efforts I have dated the birth of (modern) Social Catholicism (alias: Roman‐Catholic Social Economycs) with the publication of the closely associated works of Charles de Coux (1832) and Alban de Villeneuve‐Bargemont (1834/37). If indeed (and without going all the way back to Jesus of Nazareth, via Thomas Aquinas, Jerome and Ambrose et al.) that be the case, and the implication of the present assignment be correct, then we should have to date the “birth of solidarism” in the Social‐Catholic vein identically. Undaunted by Gide's virtual declaration that “they were all solidarists then”, this is what we set out to show, viz. that our Solidarism did have its birth therewith.

Citation

Nitsch, T.O. (1988), "Social Catholicism: Birth and Tradition of Solidarism", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 15 No. 9, pp. 3-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014118