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Christian Socialism
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1.Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850.


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The inter-related ways in which the "eternal feminine" was manifested, according to Muel-Dreyfus, included a heightened discourse of Social Catholicism and its offshoot "Christian feminism" (125) and a rise in religious pilgrimages and in the veneration of Mary.
Then, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when new movements of Christian democracy and social Catholicism emerged in France, Italy, and Germany, they sprang not from the liberal Catholicism of 1825-65 but from intransigent forces pledged to the Syllabus and the restoration of the papal states and headed largely by antiliberal, paternalist, or counterrevolutionary leadership.
Some chapters have the feel of awkward pastiches of other writings, with little originality except the desire to shoe-horn these diverse figures into the rubric of social Catholicism.
 
 
 
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