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...

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...

Distributism, a social program most closely associated with Catholic social teaching, calls for widespread and decentralized property ownership. Much in distributist thought, when considered in light of standard price theory, is simply untenable. But there is also much in distributist thought...

Luigi Taparelli (1793-1862) turned his attention to economic theory and method towards the end of his career, dedicating several articles in the 'Civiltà Cattolica' journal to the subject in the late 1850's. As an eclectic social and political theorist, combining Thomistic and Aristotelean...

Theologian John Courtney Murray was the primary motivator behind the Vatican II document, The Declaration on Religious Liberty. Murray and that document held that man had an inherent dignity that does not allow coercion in religious belief by public or private groups or institutions. Only...

Opponents of Capitalism argue that it is an immoral system fueled by greed. Greed is, after all, a biblical sin. In this vision, Greed then becomes Capitalism's Original Sin. Many Catholic thinkers have butted heads with Capitalism by contrasting it with their understanding of Catholic social...

This paper undertakes to make some comparative observations on the thought of Murray N. Rothbard and Leo Strauss. It hinges around Rothbard and Strauss’s different views on such subjects as the philosophy of Hobbes, Locke and Hume, the meaning of natural law, natural rights, and natural...