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"What is man?" (Psalm 8) Human Dignity as base for Christian Social Teaching and Christian Democracy

After years of economic growth and welfare, revolutionary changes in means of communication, we are confronted with the global financial crisis. While governments and the European Union are trying to their best to save the economies by transferring large sums of money to emergency funds, the production is decreasing, the unemployment is rising, the salaries and governmental subventions are decreasing and the poverty in Europe is increasing significantly. With this article, Leo van Doesburg is looking if human dignity as a base for Christian Social and Christian Democratic teachings could give an answer to the nowadays challenges and how the basic values of human dignity can be reintroduced as an answer on the nowadays challenges.

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  1. Leo van DoesburgApril 22, 2011 at 12:28 AM

    Thank you Kuwuwait! I am curious about your background :) blessings

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