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Article: The Roman Catholic Church and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Voices Yet Unheard in a Listening World.(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2005
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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA: VOICES YET UNHEARD IN A LISTENING WORLD. By Jozef D. Zalot. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002. Pp. xviii + 272. $38.
During the past three decades, the role the Church should play in economic development, and, by implication, politics, has increasingly become one of the most controversial subjects in the Sub-Saharan Catholic Church. Zalot engages this important question by articulating selected biblical texts, Catholic social teaching, and reflections on liberation and development by Catholic theologians especially Englebert Mveng, S.J., Jean-Marc Ela, and Laurenti Magesa. Z. ...
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