Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J.: His Life, Work, & Social Thought

Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J.: His Life, Work, & Social Thought. By Stephen A. Werner. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 24.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2001. Pp. 187. $20.00 paperback.)

Joseph Husslein, S.J. (1873-1952), was a prolific writer on Catholic social thought, an editor of the Jesuit journal, America, author of devotional works, creator and editor of "A University in Print" (see ante LXXXVII [October, 2001], 688-705), and founder of the School of Social Sciences at Saint Louis University.

This slim volume sketches Husslein's life and then devotes most of the text to an exploration of his social thought. Werner clusters Husslein's writing by themes including socialism, capitalism, an alternative to capitalism that he called democratic industry, and cooperatives. Given...