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COULTER EDITS CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA |
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August 20, 2007
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College professor of political science Michael Coulter has co-edited the “Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy,” which was recently published by Scarecrow Press.
Coulter worked with three other noted academics to edit the encyclopedia. The work took six years to complete and covered almost 1,200 pages.
With more than 800 topics from nearly 300 contributors and over 1.2 million works, the “Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy” is a comprehensive introduction to Catholic social thought. It combines theoretical work on important topics and scholarly disciplines; social science perspectives on a variety of topics, such as alcoholism and drug abuse, forgiveness and mercy and globalization, as well as applying the Catholic religious, moral and intellectual tradition to contemporary issues.
“Our aim in producing this work was to produce a clear, accurate and comprehensive reference work on Catholic social teaching,” said Coulter. “We wanted a produce a single source for understanding the church documents that contain social teaching, the key figures from the early church to the present who have shaped that teaching, and significant issues ranging from abortion to war related to that social teaching.”
Coulter also wrote the entries on abortion, conservatism and school choice. Grove City College associate professor of psychology Warren Throckmorton contributed the entry on “Reparative Therapy.”
Other co-editors of the book included Stephen M. Krason, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Richard S. Myers, Ave Maria School of Law; and Joseph A. Varacalli, Nassau Community College-State University of New York. Prominent contributors included Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia; Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Bishop J. Michael Miller, Congregation for Catholic Education; Father C. John McCloskey, Faith and Reason Institute; Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School; James Hitchcock, St. Louis University; William E. May, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family; Charles Rice, Notre Dame Law School; Ronald Rychlak, University of Mississippi School of Law; and Paul Vitz, Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
The Encyclopedia is published in two volumes and is available from the publisher’s website, www.scarecrowpress.com.
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