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Left Catholicism : Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the point of Liberation, 1943-1955

Gerd-Rainer Horn

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This volume constitutes the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon of Western European Left Catholicism from a comparative and transnational perspective. Decisively shaped by the turbulent atmosphere of war, occupation and resistance, the years 1943-1955 gave rise to a most unusual flowering of progressive initiatives in Catholic politics, theology and apostolic missions. Though suffering severe setbacks in the deep freeze of Cold War politics, mid-century Western European Left Catholicism was not without influence in the subsequent emergence of Latin American Liberation Theology and the deliberations of Vatican II.(Editor's presentation)

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Gerd-Rainer Horn, Emmanuel Gérard. Left Catholicism : Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the point of Liberation, 1943-1955. Leuven University Press, pp.319, 2001, KADOC Studies, 90-5867-093-7. ⟨hal-03596562⟩

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