Christian Reconstructionists are postmillennial Calvinistic Protestants whose adherents seek to reconstruct society in accord with biblical principles. Unlike socialist-utopian postmillennialists, Reconstructionists hold to broadly free-market views and have an affinity for Austrian economics....

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...

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...

This paper makes a simple but underappreciated point: due to the open-ended nature of constitutional entrepreneurship, the personal characteristics of constitutional entrepreneurs — intellect, will, virtues and vices, etc. — directly bear on constitutional change. The paper demonstrates this...

Ludwig von Mises pioneered the praxeological critique of economic interventionism. He argued that the state's manipulation of market processes through wage and price controls, taxes and subsidies, central bank credit manipulation, and other regulatory policies would create unintended and...