Luigi Sturzo (1871-1959) - Sicilian priest, intellectual, and founder of the Italian Popular Party - produced a corpus of serious reflection on the moral foundation of the free economy. My intent here is to discuss four theoretical foundations that enable a link to be developed between classical...

This article assesses the relevance of the Christian faith for economics. It argues that faith in the Trinity provides the basic pattern for the market system - a system that puts radically different and independent agents into a positive and fruitful relationship. As a result of being patterned...

As is known to readers of this journal, Gregory Gronbacher and Daniel Finn have engaged in an interesting dialogue about economic personalism. It is not my intention to review here all that they have written. My objective is to show that their dialogue not only touches upon key aspects of the...

Economic personalism can benefit by viewing itself in relation to other contemporary and historical efforts to understand the relationship between theology and economics. This essay summarizes some of those efforts, focusing on themes that are pivotal to the economic personalist enterprise. In...

The aim of this article is to clarify why the Austrian approach to economic analysis provides a good anthropological fit with Christian theology in seeking to develop an integrative science. In doing so, the article affirms and supports the three-volume work of the Acton Institute, which aims to...

Comments addresses only the introductory part of the first monograph in this series in which the authors set forth their theoretical foundations, and it is organized along three lines: areas of agreement, areas of disagreement, and suggestions for building a new paradigm for economics based on...

The Acton Institute's three-volume series on the Foundations of Economic Personalism contributes much to the dialogue between theology and economics. This article, however, identifies a number of shortcomings. These include an overly individualistic bias and a reliance on the Austrian school of...

In this article, we examine the doctrine of providence to see if the market system used by the United States and many other industrial nations can be thought of as part of God's providential care. The doctrine of providence concerns the preservation and direction of the universe. Theologians...

Since Adam Smith, modern rational economics insists that optimum is achieved by exchanges of independent decision makers on organized markets, which implies the capacity of participants to cooperate in the making of the economic order - something that (political and game) theory show to be...

It is well established that many well-intentioned Christian theologians and ethicists misunderstand God’s created economic order and discount the accumulated knowledge and expertise of economists — even Christian ones. Distrustful of modern economics, these ethicists understandably prescribe...