The ideology of Christian Democracy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6293045
AutoresPaolo Pombeni (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas289-300
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713682945
OpenAlexW1974924158
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas1

In some European countries the ideology of 'Christian Democracy' was an essential instrument through which the cultural and social identities associated with the Catholic Church entered into the world of modern constitutionalism and modern politics. This article explores many of the problems related to the definition of such an ideology: its linkage with the so-called social doctrine of the Catholic Church as well as the differences between them, the long historical journey which culminated in establishing 'democracy' as the unavoidable panorama for modern politics, and the relationship existing between official Vatican thought and the contribution of some Catholic thinkers, such as Maritain, Mounier and Dossetti. The climax of the ideology of Christian Democracy lay in its fundamental contribution to the constitutional documents of the post-1945 period in France, Italy and Germany. That contribution established a model through which a particular version of social democracy was realized. The assimilation of Christian democratic ideology into social democracy also signalled the dissolution of the former and enables us in retrospect to identify its 'transitional' character

Constitutionalism · Democracy · Doctrine · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Historical and Political Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions