The Department of the Social Teaching of the Church is the youngest Department at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb. It has been founded on March 31, 2000. The reason why the Department of the Social Teaching of the Church was founded at the Faculty consists in the increased interest of social and ecclesial public for the social teaching of the Church after democratic changes in Croatia in 1990. On the one hand, many lectures, social public lectures, organised gatherings, and the founding of the Centre for Promoting the Social Teaching of the Church at the HBK (it started to operate in November, 1997) have awoken the awareness of and demanded the organised theological reflection of social issues. On the other hand, after the Second Vatican Council, and especially with Pope John Paul II, the social teaching of the Church acquired a more prominent role in the practical and theoretical reflection on contemporary ecclesial and social situation. In that context, it is important to mention the first document dedicated exclusively to the social teaching of the Church, Guidelines for the Study and Teaching of the Church’s Social Doctrine in the Formation of Priests (Congregation for Catholic Education, 1988), which recognises the social teaching of the Church as an autonomous theological discipline with the strong interdisciplinary character. 

PREDMETI:

• OBVEZATNI PREDMETI
  Socijalni nauk Crkve I
  Socijalni nauk Crkve II
  Teološka socijalna etika
• IZBORNI PREDMETI
  Ljudska prava i socijalni nauk Crkve
  Kršćani i civilno društvo
  Kršćanski caritas i socijalno zagovaranje
• SEMINARI