Economic Personalism – A Christian Orthodox Contribution (I)
Economic Personalism – A Christian Orthodox Contribution (I)

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally, the reaction of many mainstream economists to the effort to integrate theology and economics demonstrated the difficulty of doing so in a way that could be broadly recognized as legitimate. This state of things is simply an indication of a broad consensus within the field of economics that methods, norms, and even concerns construed to be related to religious belief have no place in the scientific study of economics.In its first part, this paper argues that the situation seems recently to be changing, however. More than a decade ago, a group of Christian Catholic social thinkers engaged in dialogue with free-market economists concerning the morality of market activity. As a result, a new body of scholarship termed economic personalism has emerged. The general idea is to promote a humane economic order that benefits from market activity but does not reduce the human person to just another element in economic phenomena.

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