Should Catholics Drink the Tea?: Reflections on the Tea Party Movement in Light of Gaudium et Spes
This article seeks to fill a gap in Catholic literature by reflecting on the extent to which the Tea Party movement can be understood as consistent with Gaudium et Spes (GS). First, the article provides an overview of the Tea Party movement and its core ideological principles: intense individualism,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Horizons
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-340 |
| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KCC Councils ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Tea Party
B Catholic Social Thought B Gaudium et Spes B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to fill a gap in Catholic literature by reflecting on the extent to which the Tea Party movement can be understood as consistent with Gaudium et Spes (GS). First, the article provides an overview of the Tea Party movement and its core ideological principles: intense individualism, emphasis on negative human rights, limited government, fiscal responsibility, low taxes, and laissez-faire capitalism. Next, the article offers a brief description of the contextual and ecclesial background of GS and reviews its key themes. The article then assesses the extent to which the ideological principles of the Tea Party movement are supported by GS, concluding that although there are points of partial resonance between the ideology of the Tea Party and GS, the former is largely inconsistent with the vision outlined and articulated by the latter. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2015.109 |