Economic Justice
"Every perspective on economic life that is human, moral, and Christian must be shaped by three questions: What does the economy do for people? What does it do to people? And how do people participate in it?"

US Bishops, Economic Justice for All


Economic Justice for All Pastoral letter by the American bishops, 1986

What does our God require of us? February 1996 ecumenical statement on economic justice issued by the Anglican Church of Canada, Canadian Religious Conference - National, Church and Society Steering Committee, Division of Mission in Canada, United Church of Canada. Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Justice Ministries Committee, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Working Group on Public Policy and Church and Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Economic Justice By Gerald Darring, from his Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching, originally published by Sheed & Ward in 1987

Social and Economic Ethics By Christine Firer Hinze in Theological Studies, March 2009

Christian Economic Principles Underlying 21st-Century Practices: Joseph Smith Jr. and Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta By Susan Clayton Rather in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, 2009

The Popes Versus the Free Market By Bruce Duncan in Eureka Street, April 2009

Globalization's Shifting Economic and Moral Terrain: Contesting Marketplace Mores By Albino Barrera in Theological Studies, June 2008

A Faith Perspective on the Economy By Makbul Rahim in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, October 2008

Globalization's Shifting Economic and Moral Terrain: Contesting Marketplace Mores By Albino Barrera in Theological Studies, June 2008

Neoliberal Globalization: Critiques and Alternatives By John Sniegocki in Theological Studies, June 2008

Capitalism's Ingenious Immunity to the Guilty Conscience By Scott Stephens in Eureka Street, February 2007

The Ten Commandments of Marketing By Greg Soetomo in Eureka Street, February 2007

Biblical Economy, Wealth and Poverty: A Challenge to the Great Lakes Region of East Africa By James Ndyabahika in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, vol 8, 2007

Globalization and the World Economy: For Richer for Poorer, for Better or Worse? By Paul Mills in Cambridge Papers, March 2005

Fraud and Economic Dishonesty: A Curse on Our Society By James Skeen in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, January-March 2004

An Economic Approach to Theology of the Lord's Prayer By Giacomo Costa in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, October 2003

Beyond Welfare Reform: Economic Justice in the 21st Century By Peter B. Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center, lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, November 14, 2002

Enough is Enough By Walter Brueggemann in The Other Side, November-December 2001. Brueggemann confronts economic imbalance--both global and personal--with the Bible's emphasis on abundance rather than scarcity

Render unto Caesar? The Dilemmas of Taxation Policy By Christopher Townsend in Cambridge Papers, September 2001

The Divine Economy By Paul Mills in Cambridge Papers,December 2000

The Poor and the Rich: Two Opposing Christian Communities By Piet Van Boxel in The Way, 2000

Liberation theology essays by Lindy Davies
Ownership----- Value----- Capitalism----- Land----- The Sermon on the Mount

The Ethics of Capitalism By Jesús Huerta de Soto, Titular Professor of Political Economy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in Journal of Markets & Morality, Fall 1999

Putting the Rich on Notice By David R. Weiss in Sojourners, 1998

John Paul II and the Moral Ecology of Markets By Daniel R. Finn in Theological Studies, December 1998

The Late-Scholastic and Austrian Link to Modern Catholic Economic Thought By Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, in Journal of Markets & Morality, October 1998

Idols in Hyperspace: The Janus-Face of Capitalism By Ian Linden

Liberation Theology and Economics: Like Oil and Water? By Michael S. Johnson, Professor of Economics at Spring Hill College, February 1997

Moral Imperatives for Addressing Structural Adjustment and Economic Reform Measures Statement from the Religious Working Group on the World Bank and the IMF, in Maryknoll Peace and Justice,  May 1997

Investing as a Christian: Reaping Where You Have Not Sown? By Paul Mills in Cambridge Papers, June 1996

Theological and Philosophical Roots of Compensatory Payments in Forensics Economics By Homayoun Hajirin, Professor of Economics, Wheeling Jesuit University, in Wheeling Jesuit University's Cardinal Perspectives, Spring 1996

Bernard Dempsey's Theological Economics: Usury, Profit, and Human Fulfillment By D. Stephen Long in Theological Studies, December 1996

Faith versus prudence? Christians and Financial Security By Paul Mills in Cambridge Papers, March 1995

Africa's Economic Crisis in Theological Perspective By Gerishon M Kirika in Reformed World, September 1994

Ethics, Business, and the Economy By John Langan in Theological Studies, March 1994

Economic Justice for All but Church Employees By Richard P. McBrien in National Catholic Reporter, Sept 3, 1993

Moral Discourse on Economic Justice: Considerations from the Old Testament By Richard Nysse, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, in Word & World, 1992

The Jesuits and the Spirit of Capitalism By Fred Seddon in Wheeling Jesuit College's Annual, Spring 1991

Capitalist Culture and Christian Faith By John Kavanaugh in The Way, 1985

Latin American Economics and Catholic Social Teaching Articles from the Houston Catholic Worker



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