Scholars@Duke
Matthew Philipp Whelan

Matthew Philipp Whelan

Associate Research Professor of Theology
Divinity School
mwhelan@div.duke.edu
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0968
407 Chapel Dr., Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections

"The earth must be the horizon of the social question": Catholic social teaching, Laudato Si', and Latin America

Book section · January 1, 2026 This chapter examines the Catholic social teaching tradition and its distinctive variety of environmentalism through the lens of Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si'. I argue that, in recent decades, social teaching has increasingly recognized, as D ... Full text Cite