Description

This paper sets out a Christian theological economics for which the concepts of self-gift, generosity and public service and the distinctive vocation of the Church are central. It identifies economics as the expression of the Modern assumption that man is incapable of relationship alone so ultimately alone, and contrasts the Christian account of man in which, because God is with man, man can truly be with his fellow man. The paper suggests that marriage is the basic form of true economics, and modern economics is a form of parody marriage.